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Zadie Smith

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
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
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
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

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