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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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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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It made me feel that I had to work very hard, but I've always felt I had to work very hard to get my own approval.
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This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
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Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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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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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
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Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.
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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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He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.
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The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
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An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply
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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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Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
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