I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
ZADIE SMITHPeople profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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You’re a library of me.
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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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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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One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it’s always smarter than you are.
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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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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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The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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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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We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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