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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

Zadie Smith

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don’t join fashionable ‘schools of thought.’ Read everything.
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Fashionable Lubricant School
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
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
Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
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Achievement Confuse Honour
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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Country Love Lying People
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
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
Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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Rarely Squirrels Tremble
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Idea Nostalgic Worry
Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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Coverage Emotion Full Honesty Story
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
…They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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Lose Shadow Teeth White
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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Book People Reading
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
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Author Define Dictionary Sole
For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.
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Novel Pain Problem

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

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