Frasi di Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith, nata Sadie Smith , è una scrittrice e saggista britannica.

Fino ad ora ha scritto cinque romanzi ambientati perlopiù a Londra. Negli ultimi anni è stata celebrata come una delle giovani autrici inglesi di maggior talento. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Ottobre 1975  •  Altri nomi ஸேடி ஸ்மித், زادی اسمیت, ज़ैडी स्मिथ
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Zadie Smith: Frasi in inglese

“… the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”

Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi

Variante: A past tense, future perfect kind of night.
Origine: White Teeth (2000)

“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 424.
Origine: On Beauty (2005)

“You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Unspecified edition, p. 167.
On Beauty (2005)
Variante: You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.

“Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Origine: On Beauty

“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”

Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi

Origine: White Teeth (2000)
Contesto: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”

Zadie Smith libro Denti bianchi

Variante: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Origine: White Teeth (2000)

“Nowadays I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.”

Zadie Smith libro Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Origine: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

“It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Origine: On Beauty

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