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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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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Simply
Disingenuous
Maybe
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Become
Jolly
Self
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Promoting
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
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He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.
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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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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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The past is always tense, the future perfect.
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I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.
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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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Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
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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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