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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Weather
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Fine
Wants
Resolution
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Sentence
Nothing
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First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
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It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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