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New York City

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British

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literary realism

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Royal Society of Literature

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is not just the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road, a little further down the track.

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience. Zadie Smith

is one who does not have favorites among her children, but she does have allies.

You don't have favorites among your children, but you do have allies.

is a city one doesn't come to unless a strong aspect of one's personality is the delusion of a reality shaped around one's own desires.

You don't come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn't a strong aspect of your personality. A reality shaped around your own desires - there is something sociopathic in that ambition. - Zadie Smith, Find Your Beach

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