Zadie Smith Quotes About Giving

• Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?

  Zadie Smith

  Renunciar, Mentir, Creer

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White Teeth: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

• (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

  Zadie Smith

  Giving, Catholic, Promise

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.25, Vintage

• Esto se debe a que en Inglaterra nunca hace mucho frío. Llovizna y sopla el viento; cae granizo y hay una especie de martes de enero en el que el tiempo se arrastra y no llega la luz y el aire está lleno de agua y nadie quiere realmente a nadie, pero aun así un jersey decente y una chaqueta de cera forrada de lana son suficientes para cualquier tiempo que dé Inglaterra.

  Zadie Smith

  Blow, Light, Air

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.33, Penguin UK

• I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, Giving, Feelings

• I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

  Zadie Smith

  Giving Up, Eye, Ideas

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, October 26, 2010.

• The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

  Zadie Smith

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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