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Zadie Smith Quotes
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Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure (Zadie Smith Quotes)
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Is there anything more likely to take the shine off an affair that when the lover strikes up a convivial relationship with the lovee's mother (Zadie Smith Quotes)
But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song and dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not (Zadie Smith Quotes)
He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Because this is the other thing about immigrants: They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow (Zadie Smith Quotes)
His death is like the soft down on the back of your hand, passing unnoticed in the firmest of handshakes, though the slightest breeze makes every damn one of the tiny hairs stand on end (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 (Zadie Smith Quotes)
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down (Zadie Smith Quotes)
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention (Zadie Smith Quotes)
They had nothing to say to each other. A five year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you (Zadie Smith Quotes)
The fate of the young man in his headphones, who faced a jail cell that very night, did not seem such a world away from his own predicament: an anniversary party full of academics (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time (Zadie Smith Quotes)
And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day (Zadie Smith Quotes)
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence (Zadie Smith Quotes)
I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know? (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Thirty years - almost all of them really happy. That's a lifetime, it's incredible. Most people don't get that. But maybe this is just over, you know? Maybe it's over (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 (Zadie Smith Quotes)
At any time of the day, corduroy is a highly stressful fabric. Rent collectors wear it. Tax collectors, too. History teachers add leather elbow patches (Zadie Smith Quotes)
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt - something is gained but something is lost (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own (Zadie Smith Quotes)
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can (Zadie Smith Quotes)
So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past (Zadie Smith Quotes)
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect (Zadie Smith Quotes)
Because this is the other thing about immigrants ('fugees, émigrés, travellers): they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow (Zadie Smith Quotes)
One of the advantages of loving women, of being loved by women: they will always do things far beyond the call of duty (Zadie Smith Quotes)
There is a connection between boredom and the desire for chaos. Despite many disguises and bluffs perhaps she had never stopped wanting chaos (Zadie Smith Quotes)
As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues (Zadie Smith Quotes)