We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention. - Zadie Smith - Quotesmemo.com

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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

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Zadie Smith

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

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The past is always tense, the future perfect.

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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

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Time is how you spend your love.

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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

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Rick Riordan

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The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen stormed into our hotel in Cairo. I heard shots coming from the lobby and ran downstairs to check on my dad. By the time I got there, he was just calmly zipping up his workbag while three unconscious gunmen hung by their feet from the chandelier, their robes falling over their heads so you could see their boxer shorts. Dad claimed not to have witnessed anything, and in the end the police blamed a freak chandelier malfunction.

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Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

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