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

Zadie Smith

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
…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
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
The young people have a phrase for this now, which is “slay in your lane.” That’s a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
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Out People Work 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
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
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

…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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