Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
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Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.
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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
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One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.
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When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
Zadie Smith...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Zadie Smith... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.
Zadie SmithGetting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.
Zadie SmithTravel had seemed the key to the kingdom, back then. One dreamed of a life that would enable travel. Howard looked through his window at a lamp-post buried to its waist in show supporting two chained-up, frozen bikes, identifiable only by the tips of their handlebars. He imagined waking up this morning and digging his bike out of the snow and riding to a proper job, the kind Belseys had had for generations, and found he couldn't imagine it. This interested Howard, for a moment: the idea that he could no longer gauge the luxuries of his own life.
Zadie SmithClaire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of "fittingness": that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve it--no matter how small or insignificant both might be--are matched exactly, are fitting. This, Claire argued, is when we become truly human, fully ourselves, beautiful....In Claire's presence, you were not faulty or badly designed, no, not at all. You were the fitting receptacle and instrument of your talents and beliefs and desires.
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