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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: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Nerd
Popularity
Leads
Girls
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Money
Nerds

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All tastes are expressions of belief.
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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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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.
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The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
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For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
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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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The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
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You're a library of me.
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She loved you in the morning because the day was new.
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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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Each couple is its own vaudeville act.
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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
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An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply
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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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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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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
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