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Zadie Smith Quotes

“Our external tubular heating system, painted in garish primary colors, looked like a poor man's Pompidou.”

Description Simile Zadie Smith Pipes Pompidou Swing Time

Book:Swing Time

Source: Swing Time

“A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And I don’t know why I’m surprised. You don’t even notice it – you never notice. You think it’s normal. Everywhere we go, I’m alone in this… this sea of white. I barely know any black folk any more, Howie. My whole life is white. I don’t see any black folk unless they be cleaning under my feet in the fucking café in your fucking college. Or pushing a fucking hospital bed through a corridor . . . ‘I gave up my life for you. I don’t even know who I am any more.’ . . . ‘Could you have found anybody less like me if you’d scoured the earth? . . . My leg weighs more than that woman. What have you made me look like in front of everybody in this town? You married a big black bitch and you run off with a fucking leprechaun?”

Women African American Caucasian Zadie Smith On Beauty

Book:On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

“you’re lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You’re lucky that you’re happy, that you know how to be happy, that you’re a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do?”

Book:NW

Source: NW

“Maybe nothing that happens upon stolen ground can expect a happy ending.”

White Teeth Zadie Smith

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“I AM NOT A WAITER. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT, A SCIENTIST, A SOLDIER, MY WIFE IS CALLED ALSANA, WE LIVE IN EAST LONDON BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NORTH. I AM A MUSLIM BUT ALLAH HAS FORSAKEN ME OR I HAVE FORSAKEN ALLAH, I'M NOT SURE. I HAVE A FRIEND—ARCHIE—AND OTHERS. I AM FORTY-NINE BUT WOMEN STILL TURN IN THE STREET. SOMETIMES. (3.81)”

Identity Racial Profiling White Teeth Zadie Smith

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“Secondo l'esperienza di Archie, qualunque cosa dotata di memoria lunga mantiene i rancori, e non va per niente bene tenere animaletti domestici con ragioni di rancore (quella volta mi hai dato il cibo sbagliato, quell'altra mi hai fatto il bagno).”

Italian Italiano Zadie Smith Archie Denti Bianchi

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“E in passato, si chiese Archie, la gente imbrogliava di meno? Era piu' onesta, lasciava la porta di casa aperta, affidava i figli ai vicini, faceva visite agli amici, aveva il conto aperto con il macellaio?”

Zadie Smith Archie Denti Bianchi

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love.”

Love Poetry Time Poem Zadie Smith Nick Laird The Last Saturday In Ulster

Book:To a Fault

Source: To a Fault