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Zadie Smith Quotes

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: October 25, 1975

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Me Writing Kind Never Universal Set

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

Jeremy Grantham

Death People Environmental Better

We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved.

People Look Back Say Living Flow

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character.

Character Mountain Voice Black Early

Why do we let blind people and people in wheelchairs become citizens? I feel sorry for cripples, but that doesn't mean I want them in my country.

People Sorry Blind Feel Country Why

As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't.

Journey Fight Long You Desire Want

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

Martin O'Malley

I Am Free Bad Fair Free Trade Trade

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

Enough Say System Only Able Songs

The more insanity that comes from Washington, D.C., the stronger the loyal opposition becomes.

Stronger Insanity Washington More

The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.

People Win Chance Think American

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Always Poet Cannot Requirements He

In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.

Love Time Man Sex Hospital Out

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

Douglas Rushkoff

People World Computers Reality More

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