What did Zadie Smith mean by: Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control. - Zadie Smith Author · England Copy
+ 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
+ [George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn’t a thing left to chance. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Chance, Left, Precise, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ 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
+ This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Divorce, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Objects, Passion, 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
+ Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Baby, Baptism, Kissing, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Novel, Pain, Problem, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
