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You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.
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We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
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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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The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.
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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
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- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
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Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
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Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
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I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.
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