What did Zadie Smith mean by: For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain. - Zadie Smith Author · England Copy
+ Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Art, Myth, Western, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Novel, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Good Times, Self, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Creativity, Ideas, Motherhood, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: ‘How can I do it?’ Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Social Network, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Character, Individual, Language, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Essentials, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Hands, Telling The Truth, Veils, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
Let me know what your problem is, and I will try to make it more difficult for you. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot Economist and journalist · England
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Most people aren’t cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain. - Jean-Marie Eveillard