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One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.

Zadie Smith

Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
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
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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
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
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
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
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.

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