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Zadie Smith quotes: But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was? But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?
Zadie Smith quotes: I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time. I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
Zadie Smith quotes: For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the saltsomething is gained but something is lost. For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt
something is gained but something is lost.
Zadie Smith quotes: Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources. Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.
Zadie Smith quotes: The Noted Activist The Noted Activist
Zadie Smith quotes: She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her. She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.
Zadie Smith quotes: I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another. I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.
Zadie Smith quotes: I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely. I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
Zadie Smith quotes: Then they had gone outside, onto the steps, where a breeze lifted secondhand confetti Then they had gone outside, onto the steps, where a breeze lifted secondhand confetti
Zadie Smith quotes: I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
Zadie Smith quotes: Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith quotes: A peculiar idea. Once you're alive in this world, you're responsible." "For A peculiar idea. Once you're alive in this world, you're responsible." "For
Zadie Smith quotes: Nobody can cast themselves out. Nobody can cast themselves out.
Zadie Smith quotes: That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way. That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.
Zadie Smith quotes: The past is always tense, the future perfect. The past is always tense, the future perfect.
Zadie Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Zadie Smith quotes: 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'? 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'?
Zadie Smith quotes: The wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. The wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Zadie Smith quotes: If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space. If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
Zadie Smith quotes: We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention. We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
Zadie Smith quotes: Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls. Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
Zadie Smith quotes: The nineties, ecstatic decade! The nineties, ecstatic decade!
Zadie Smith quotes: In a whisper he began begging for - and, as the sun set, received - the concession people always beg for: a little more time. In a whisper he began begging for - and, as the sun set, received - the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
Zadie Smith quotes: Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives. Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.
Zadie Smith quotes: I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere. I felt a wonderful lightness in my body, a ridiculous happiness, it seemed to come from nowhere.
Zadie Smith quotes: (oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly) (oh, he loves her; just as the English loved India and Africa and Ireland; it is the love that is the problem, people treat their lovers badly)
Zadie Smith quotes: She lost God so smoothly and painlessly she had to wonder what she'd ever meant by the word. She lost God so smoothly and painlessly she had to wonder what she'd ever meant by the word.
Zadie Smith quotes: Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Zadie Smith quotes: Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby. Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
Zadie Smith quotes: Kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement. Kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles, marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement.
Zadie Smith quotes: Beggars cannot be choosers. Beggars cannot be choosers.
Zadie Smith quotes: She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive. She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive.
Zadie Smith quotes: I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith quotes: I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith quotes: Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money. Maybe luxury is the easiest matrix to pass through. Maybe nothing is easier to get used to than money.
Zadie Smith quotes: I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it. I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
Zadie Smith quotes: A clear and unified voice. In that context, this business of being biracial, of being half black and half white, is awkward. A clear and unified voice. In that context, this business of being biracial, of being half black and half white, is awkward.
Zadie Smith quotes: Pulchritudebeauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection. Pulchritude
beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
Zadie Smith quotes: I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
Zadie Smith quotes: There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route. There was an inevitability about the road towards each other which encouraged meandering along the route.
Zadie Smith quotes: This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living. This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
Zadie Smith quotes: In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Zadie Smith quotes: [he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth [he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth
Zadie Smith quotes: All tastes are expressions of belief. All tastes are expressions of belief.
Zadie Smith quotes: It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. It was the same now. Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia.
Zadie Smith quotes: The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
Zadie Smith quotes: Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed. Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie Smith quotes: All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies. All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith quotes: Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people. Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.
Zadie Smith quotes: The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story. The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.
Zadie Smith quotes: The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer. The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.
Zadie Smith quotes: There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with. There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.
Zadie Smith quotes: This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
Zadie Smith quotes: The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
Zadie Smith quotes: A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
Zadie Smith quotes: He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire, the kind of talking that only increases it. He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire, the kind of talking that only increases it.
Zadie Smith quotes: Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison. Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.
Zadie Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Zadie Smith quotes: You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
Zadie Smith quotes: For he is in a past-tense, future-perfect kind of mood. For he is in a past-tense, future-perfect kind of mood.
Zadie Smith quotes: Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format? Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
Zadie Smith quotes: It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. It's such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.
Zadie Smith quotes: A different kind of history from my mother's, the kind that is barely written down - that is felt. A different kind of history from my mother's, the kind that is barely written down - that is felt.
Zadie Smith quotes: Nostalgia is a luxury. Nostalgia is a luxury.
Zadie Smith quotes: There are so many different ways to be poor, There are so many different ways to be poor,
Zadie Smith quotes: Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned. Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.
Zadie Smith quotes: Don't confuse honours with achievement. Don't confuse honours with achievement.
Zadie Smith quotes: When all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow. When all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.
Zadie Smith quotes: Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else. Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.
Zadie Smith quotes: He traced the genealogy of the feeling. He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
Zadie Smith quotes: Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad. Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.
Zadie Smith quotes: Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied. Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
Zadie Smith quotes: When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion. When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
Zadie Smith quotes: There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right. There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
Zadie Smith quotes: Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy. Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
Zadie Smith quotes: Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.
Zadie Smith quotes: The future's another country, man ... And I still ain't got a passport. The future's another country, man ... And I still ain't got a passport.
Zadie Smith quotes: Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information ... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house. Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information ... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.
Zadie Smith quotes: You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal. You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.
Zadie Smith quotes: It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe. It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
Zadie Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Zadie Smith quotes: You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence. You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
Zadie Smith quotes: One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally. One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.
Zadie Smith quotes: He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind. He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.
Zadie Smith quotes: Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us. Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
Zadie Smith quotes: Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead. Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
Zadie Smith quotes: While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.
Zadie Smith quotes: The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action. The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
Zadie Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Zadie Smith quotes: Grass can be seen, although it is important not to Grass can be seen, although it is important not to
Zadie Smith quotes: I didn't understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom. I didn't understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom.
Zadie Smith quotes: You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me. You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
Zadie Smith quotes: Everybody's got their tribe. Whose tribe are you in anyway? Everybody's got their tribe. Whose tribe are you in anyway?
Zadie Smith quotes: Don't mask self-doubt with contempt. Don't mask self-doubt with contempt.
Zadie Smith quotes: The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with. The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
Zadie Smith quotes: When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark. When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
Zadie Smith quotes: but to create a real feeling - made but to create a real feeling - made
Zadie Smith quotes: Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
Zadie Smith quotes: but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What
Zadie Smith quotes: The whole plan's so high on the cheese factor it's practically Stilton The whole plan's so high on the cheese factor it's practically Stilton

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