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I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
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He was bookish, she was not he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
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Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
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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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One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.
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Where I come from, said Archie, a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her. Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean, said Samad tersely, that it is a good idea.
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The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.
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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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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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Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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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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You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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Life’s not a video game, Felix- there aren’t a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn’t actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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