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

Zadie Smith

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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Ghost Risk Sublime
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
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
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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 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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble

…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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