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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Genealogy
Traced
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Feelings

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It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.
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The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.
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It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
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For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites. It's so childish, really, but that might be simply what it is.
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It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.
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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
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Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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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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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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