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Zadie Smith _ NW
She struggled to think of anyone besides perhaps James Baldwin and Jesus who had experiences the profound isolation and loenliness she now knew to be the one and only true reality of this world.
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
Ahol én nélkülözést, igazságtalanságot, szegénységet láttam, ott Granger egyszerűséget, az anyagiasság hiányát, a közösségi élet szépségét vette észre - ami gyökeres ellentéte volt az amerikai létformának, amelyben ő felnőtt. Ahol én többnejűséget, nőgyűlöletet, anyátlan gyermekeket láttam {anyám gyermekkori szigetét, csak még hangsúlyosabban, hagyományokkal megerősítve}, ott ő emlékezett a hatodik emeleti apró garzonra, amelyben kettesben élt egy depressziós anyával, a magányra, az élelmiszerjegyekre, a céltalanságra, a közvetlenül a lakásuk előtt futó veszélyes utcákra, és őszinte könnyeket hullatva jelentette ki, mennyivel boldogabb lett volna, ha nem egy, hanem tizenöt nő neveli fel.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them {not so much over the head as between the legs}; and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable. Like Garibaldi biscuits.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not {as with most of the girls Archie had run with in the past} like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
He was no great believer in destiny, Archie, but on reflection it did seem that a special effort of predestination had ensured his life had been picked out for him like a company Christmas present-early, and the same as everyone else's."
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
It's not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality {of the three-dimensional kind}, which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
Peele gets to the core of what contemporary entitlement looks like-concern with one's personal rights combined with non-interest in one's duties
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
It's only recently that I had any idea that how a person felt about libraries-not schools or hospitals, libraries-could even represent an ideological split. I thought a library was one of the few sites where the urge to conserve and the desire to improve-twin poles of our political mind-were easily and naturally united.
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
has never been hard for me to pay my taxes because I understand it to be the repaying of a large, in fact, an almost incalculable, debt.
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
But equally you can't fight for a freedom you've forgotten how to identify.
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