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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
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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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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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.
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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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She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.
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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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I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.
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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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A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.
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It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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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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Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
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It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.
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Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.
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You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
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