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"Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." Sep 15, 2016 02:05PM

 
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What appeared to be economic growth was activity fueled by people borrowing money they probably couldn’t afford to repay: by their rough count, worldwide debts, public and private, had more than doubled since 2002, from $84 trillion to $195 ...more
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Zadie Smith
“Chuck functions here as a kind of authenticity fetish, allowing Hans (and the reader) the nostalgic pleasure of returning to a narrative time when symbols and mottoes were full of meaning and novels weren’t neurotic, but could aim themselves simply and purely at transcendent feeling.”
Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Zadie Smith
“I gather sentences round, quotations, the literary equivalent of a cheerleading squad. Except that analogy’s screwy—cheerleaders cheer. I put up placards that make me feel bad.”
Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Zadie Smith
“When you enter a beloved novel many times, you can come to feel that you possess it, that nobody else has ever lived there. You try not to notice the party of impatient tourists trooping through the kitchen (Pnin a minor scenic attraction en route to the canyon Lolita), or that shuffling academic army, moving in perfect phalanx, as they stalk a squirrel around the backyard (or a series of squirrels, depending on their methodology).”
Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Henry Miller
“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”
Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

Zadie Smith
“The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses.”
Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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