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"For the last couple of years, when people ask me what I’ve been up to, I say that I’m writing a book. They ask for details and I tell them, 'It’s about empathy.' They tend to smile and nod when I say the word, and then I add: 'I’m against it.'"
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Swing Time
Zadie Smith
“If all the Saturdays of 1982 can be thought of as one day, I met Tracey at ten a.m. on that Saturday, walking through the sandy gravel of a churchyard, each holding our mother’s hand. There were many other girls present but for obvious reasons we noticed each other, the similarities and the differences, as girls will.”
Otared
Mohammad Rabie trans. Robin Moger
"We took turns smoking the joint. The five of us finished it in under a minute: just two puffs each."
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Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book
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Discovery
Samantha Hunt
“'Senator, the President has asked for a word.' Which one? The senator wonders. He can't have ‘Senator.’ I've gone flush with it. ‘Senator’ has lubricated my life. He relaxes a moment, having cleared that up, but then fidgets again with a start. He can't have ‘pulsar’ either. It's one of the sexiest words I get to say in publicly funded conversations.”
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