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The nineties, ecstatic decade!

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Nineties
Ecstatic
Decade
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.
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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.
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Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.
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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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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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I do my best work under pressure, so I’ll nick an artery, and my husband isn’t allowed to stanch the bleeding till I’ve banged out a chapter.
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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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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.
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It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy
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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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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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Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
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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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When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
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I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.
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The past is always tense, the future perfect.
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