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Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.
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Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.
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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment it is transient as all moments are it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name let us call it the Fullness of Time.
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I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.
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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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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
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I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
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To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.
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Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
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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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She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.
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I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.
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The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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The nineties, ecstatic decade!
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