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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: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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Men
Passport
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Future
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.
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But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
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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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It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.
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One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.
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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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