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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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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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