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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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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…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time…
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this…
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I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever…
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The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an…
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In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear,…
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Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.
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All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and…
— Edward Said
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When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:…
— Zadie Smith
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The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her…
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The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach…
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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play,…
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