Zadie Smith quotes

You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies. (Zadie Smith)
Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.
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This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.
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He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
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In a whisper he began begging for-and, as the sun set, received-the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
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He traced the genealogy of the feeling.
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Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.
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The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Becauseis one of the magical fantasy words likeandandthat have now passed into language. (Zadie Smith)
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.
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You're a library of me.
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Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.
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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.
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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.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
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Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
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The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself. (Zadie Smith)
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
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She loved you in the morning because the day was new.
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Full stories are as rare as honesty.
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