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From Quotes by Zadie Smith
- Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
- Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
- Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
- Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in…
- Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
- I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time…
- This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day…
- 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…
- - You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had…
- Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East…
- It was a kiss from the past.
- This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
- Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is…
- ... 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…
- Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted…
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