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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
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- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
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'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.
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I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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