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Zadie Smith Quotes: The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.
         

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.


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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.



As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.



The past is always tense, the future perfect.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.



Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.



Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.



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.

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.



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Time is how you spend your love.



I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.



Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.



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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There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

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