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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Ideals
Meant
Reader
Writer
Sleep
Cannot
Holding
Ideal

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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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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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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
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You're a library of me.
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Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
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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 love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. Im too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
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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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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure.
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