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Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Vaudeville
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.
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The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.
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It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.
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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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You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
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Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
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The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
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Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.
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It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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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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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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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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