“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
— Zadie Smith
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No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless.
Zadie Smith, Swing Time
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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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Writing, like dancing, is one of the arts available to people who have nothing. “For ten and sixpence,” advises Virginia Woolf, “one can buy paper enough to write all the plays of Shakespeare.” The only absolutely necessary equipment in dance is your own body.
Zadie Smith, "Dance Lessons for Writers"
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ZADIE SMITH READING ANIMALS BY FRANK O’HARA VIA AN OLD FASHIONED PHONE LINE ?
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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
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July, my Lost Lover
"Midsummer", d.x.y// Fourteenth of July Celebration in Paris, Vincent Van Gogh// Holler, Allie Ray// 14 July 1905: Night, Dieppe// Burning in the Water Drowning in the Flame, Charles Bukowski// Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke: 1910-1926, Rainer Maria Rilke// A Day in July, Louis Ritman// NW, Zadie Smith//July Night, Childe Hassam// "(July is Over and There is Very Little Trace)", Frank O'Hara//
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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
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9th jan 2024 — went book shopping today 🛍 i really wanted to buy the two hanya yanagihara novels i haven't read yet (people in the trees + to paradise), and they didn't have either?? so i walked away with a copy of 'the secret history', 'on beauty' by zadie smith and 'up at the villa' by w. somerset maugham
— this'll be my first smith & maugham!! so excited
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Yes, sometimes it’s the strangers that sustain you.
Zadie Smith, Swing Time
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The dishonesty of diary-writing — this voice you put on for supposedly no one but yourself — I found that idea so depressing. I feel that life has too much artifice in it anyway without making a pretty pattern of your own most intimate thoughts. Or maybe it’s the other way round: some people are able to write frankly, simply, of how they feel, whereas I can’t stop myself turning it into a pretty pattern.
Zadie Smith, "Life-Writing"
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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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