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She loved you in the morning because the day was new.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Loved
Morning

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Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
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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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Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
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The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
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Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?
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I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.
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Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
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Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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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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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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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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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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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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It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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