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Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Vaudeville
Couple

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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment it is transient as all moments are it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name let us call it the Fullness of Time.
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And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy. But in another way, when I'm writing, what it's about for me is being good on the page. None of that noise could change the way I feel about my writing. Which is not always particularly positive.
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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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- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
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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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She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
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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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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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I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.
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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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Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.
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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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Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.
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The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in the house people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.
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I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.
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