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One Quotes by Zadie Smith
- It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
- No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy…
- World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
- 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…
- ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the…
- Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.
- When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
- 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…
- Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
- The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character,…
- I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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