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Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Fool
Face
Faces
Woman
Counts

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We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
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He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.
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I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.
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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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She loved you in the morning because the day was new.
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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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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
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I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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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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When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
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The nineties, ecstatic decade!
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