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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

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
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
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 cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White

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

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