Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.
Zadie SmithIt's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
Zadie SmithWriting is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie SmithI have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.
Zadie SmithA lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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