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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders’] ghosts was a part of it.

Zadie Smith

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Insight Novelist Political
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
It’s difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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Book People Reveal Tell Truth
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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Edit Secret Simple
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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Attention Ignored Something Worthy
The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Absolutely Essential Library
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Book People Reading
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders’] ghosts was a part of it.

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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders’] ghosts was a part of it.

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