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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
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London
England
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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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You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
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Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
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Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
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It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply
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For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking about opposites. It's so childish, really, but that might be simply what it is.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.
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You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase at the end of the day--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of all kinds--but Archie's never felt that way about it. Prudent use of said phrase never failed to convince him that his interlocutor was getting to the bottom of things, to the fundamental
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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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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I always remind myself that [ Jean-Paul] Sartre and [Simone] de Beauvoir didn't have children. And when you don't have children, it might be easier to believe that the child doesn't come with something.
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When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing.
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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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