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You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Illegal
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Feels
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.
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This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
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Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
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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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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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It was a kiss from the past.
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Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
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Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.
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The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.
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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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Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.
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