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These are hysterical times; any novel that aims at hysteria will now be effortlessly outstripped.
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I wonder sometimes whether critics shouldn't be more like teachers, giving a gold star or a black cross, but either way accompanied by some kind of useful advice.
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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
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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.
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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
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.. and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game.
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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 you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.
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Born:
October 25, 1975
(age 48)
Bio:
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
Known for:
White Teeth (2000)
On Beauty (2005)
The Autograph Man (2002)
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009)
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