Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.
Zadie SmithMake sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.
Zadie SmithTry to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
Zadie SmithShe represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystรจre of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.
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