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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

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
Time is how you spend your love.
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Emotion Express Feeling Love Spend
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
You’re a library of me.
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Attention Express Feeling Library
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Action Alternatives Lack
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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Belief Fun Heterosexuality
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
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
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
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
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
You can feel bad… I mean, that’s not illegal.
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Bad Feel Illegal Mean

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