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…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Zadie Smith

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Interesting People Political
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
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 often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.
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Incredible Luxury World Writing
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
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.
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Form Novel Smarter
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend

…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

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…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

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