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Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.
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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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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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To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that my child is not dying of cancer right now.
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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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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.
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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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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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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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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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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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You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.
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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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It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing.
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