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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
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It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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Where I come from, said Archie, a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her. Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean, said Samad tersely, that it is a good idea.
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It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
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There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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