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Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.
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When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure.
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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
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Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
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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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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
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It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.
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I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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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 am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.
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Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.
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'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
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