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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Passport
Passports
Future
Another
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Still
Country
Men

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I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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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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Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
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The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.
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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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Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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The nineties, ecstatic decade!
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It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.
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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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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.
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The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
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...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
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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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