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Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
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London
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Zadie Adeline Smith
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When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.
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The young people have a phrase for this now, which is slay in your lane. That's a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can't do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
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She loved you in the morning because the day was new.
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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
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And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
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To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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He was bookish, she was not he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
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The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
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The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
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