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About Zadie Smith
English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer
Zadie Smith is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, appeared in 2000 and quickly became a best-seller, bringing her wide attention. She has 153 quotes on the site. Smith’s first novel also won several awards. In September 2010, she became a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty at New York University.
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- “For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.”Elizabeth Inchbald
- “Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hop…”Germaine Greer
- “The Christian stoic who has crushed his feelings is only two-thirds of a man; an important third part has bee…”A.W. Tozer
Explore Pride
- “The sinner I was expecting was guilty of pride, lust and spiritual despair, not merely of sloth and ineptitud…”Lorna Sage
- “but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one po…”Philip K. Dick
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Books by Zadie Smith
White Teeth
2001
On Beauty
2005
The Autograph Man
2003
Swing Time
2017
Changing my mind
2009