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Book: Swing Time
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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 _ Swing Time
And now I found I couldn't stay small, my eyes stayed closed but my voice lifted, and kept lifting, I got louder and louder, I did not feel I had control of it, exactly, it was something I'd released that now rose up and away and escaped my reach.
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
But elegance attracted me. I liked the way it hid pain.
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
People like us, we can't be nostalgic. We've no home in the past. Nostalgia is a luxury.
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
... - I couldn't help but notice the placidity of a small female household. In Tracey's home, disappointment in the man was ancient history: they never really had any hope in him, for he had almost never been at home.
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached and unprejudiced in your own case.
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
And so if we want to see real change in this world, she continued, adjusting the incline on her running machine until I, who walked on a neighboring one, seemed to be watching her dash up the side of Kilimanjaro, well, then we ourselves have to be the ones to do it, yes, we have to be the change we want to see. By "we" she meant people like herself, of financial means and global reach, who happen to love freedom and equality, want justice, feel an obligation to do something good with their own good fortune. It was a moral category but also an economic one. And if you followed its logic all the way to the end of the revolving belt, then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing {...}
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space."
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
Do others have to lose so we can win?
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the older woman's art of fermenting rage, conserving it, for later use.
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
I thought it odd that my father should travel eight miles to Lambert's for comfort when Lambert seemed already to have suffered the kind of abandonment my father feared so badly
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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
I think I was strange to my mother and to my father, a changeling belonging to neither one of them, and although this is of course true of all children, in the end-we are not our parents and they are not us-my father's children would have come to this knowledge with a certain slowness, over years...whereas I was born knowing it, I have always known it, it is a truth stamped all over my face
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