Zadie Smith Quote
There was a sense in which she couldn’t quite believe in violence, as if it were, in her view, too stupid to be real. I knew—from Lambert only—that her own childhood had been full of violence, emotional and physical, but she rarely referred to it other than calling it that nonsense, or sometimes those ridiculous people, because when she ascended to the life of the mind everything that was not the life of the mind stopped existing for her.
Zadie Smith
There was a sense in which she couldn’t quite believe in violence, as if it were, in her view, too stupid to be real. I knew—from Lambert only—that her own childhood had been full of violence, emotional and physical, but she rarely referred to it other than calling it that nonsense, or sometimes those ridiculous people, because when she ascended to the life of the mind everything that was not the life of the mind stopped existing for her.
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About Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.