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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

Zadie Smith

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
ZADIE SMITH

Interesting People Political
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 greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
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
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
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
Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
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
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library

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