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Zadie Smith

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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
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
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
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
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
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
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn’t like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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Intimate Writing Young

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