Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]
Zadie SmithStichwörter: love-and-lust
That girl,' tutted Alsana as her front door slammed, 'swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time.
Zadie SmithStichwörter: encyclopedia gutter
It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
Zadie SmithWhen my little group get together, if we disagree about something, we can sort it out. Example: Mohona Hossain hates Divargiit Singh. Hates all his movies. Hates him with a passion. She likes that other fool with the eyelashes like a lady! But we compromise. Never once have I burned a single video of hers.
Zadie SmithStichwörter: tolerance
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Zadie SmithStichwörter: truth past solution
He promised them a class that would challenge their own beliefs about the redemptive humanity of what is commonly called 'Art'. 'Art is the Western myth,' announced Howard, for the sixth year in a row, 'with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.
Zadie SmithStichwörter: art
She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in the dock. As Dr Byford explained, she was really the victim of a vicious, peculiarly female psycological disorder: she felt one thing and did another. She was a stranger to herself.
And were they still like that, she wondered - these new girls, this new generation? Did they still feel one thing and do another? Did they still only want to be wanted? Were they still objects of desire instead of - as Howard might put it - desiring subjects? No, she could see no serious change. Still starving themselves, still reading women's magazines that explicitly hate women, still cutting themselves with little knives in places they think can't be seen, still faking their orgasms with men they dislike, still lying to everybody about everything.
Stichwörter: women generation objects disorder
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 what you leave on the page.
Zadie SmithThe experience of listening to an hour's music you barely know in a dead language you do not understand is a strange falling and rising experience. For minutes at a time you are walking deep into it, you seem to understand. Then, without knowing how or when exactly, you discover you have wandered away, bored or tired from the effort, and now you are nowhere near the music.
Zadie SmithStichwörter: music
Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose.
Zadie SmithStichwörter: faith
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