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You’re a library of me.

Zadie Smith

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
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
I’m very attracted to exile literature – particularly Nabokov – exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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Home Idea Literature
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
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
When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn’t like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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Intimate Writing Young

You’re a library of me.

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