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this new delicacy, this suggestions of mortal time working on her just as it works on everybody, spoke to me more loudly than any of the old accusations of daughterly neglect ever had.
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Uno dei piu grandi sogni di autenticita dell'avanguardia e questa possibilita di diventare criminali, di condividere la sorte di Genet e John Fante, dei freak, dei perduti, degli emarginati. (Con la notevole eccezione di J.G. Ballard, autore di quello che e forse il miglior romanzo britannico d'avanguardia, La mostra delle atrocita, che allevo da solo tre figli nella tranquillita domestica di una villetta bifamiliare di Shepperton.) Per l'a..
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begins with you walking towards a huge pit. The pit is on the other side of a precipice, which you cannot see over until you are right at its edge. Your death is awaiting you in that pit. You don't know what it looks like or sounds like or smells like. You don't know whether it will be good or bad. You just walk towards it. Your will is a clarinet and your footsteps are attended by all the violins. The closer you get to the pit, the more yo..
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And she had not paid a high price. Only love. Just love. And whatever Corinthians might say, love is not such a hard thing to forfeit, not if you've never really felt it. She did not love Archie, but had made up her mind, from that first moment on the steps, to devote herself to him if he would take her away.
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She wanted to check that it was not her imagination, that she was not being unfair or undemocratic, or worse still racist (but she had read Colour Blind, a seminal leaflet from the Rainbow Coalition, she had scored well on the self-test), racist in ways that were so deeply ingrained and socially determining that they escaped her attention.
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That girl," tutted Alsana as her front door slammed. "Swallowed an encyclopedia and a gutter at the same time."
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And were they still like that, she wondered--these new girls, this new generation? Did they still feel one thing and do another? Did they still only want to be wanted? Were they still objects of desire instead of--as Howard might put it--desiring subjects?
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He'd turned to me, red-faced, and asked: 'If we were flying to Europe and you wanted to know what France was like, would it help if I described Germany?
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Please. Do me this one, great favor, Jones. If ever you hear anyone, when you are back home--if you, if we, get back to our respective homes--if ever you hear anyone speak of the East," and here his voice plummeted a register, and the tone was full and sad, "hold your judgment. If you are told 'they are all this' or 'they do this' or 'their opinions are these,' withhold your judgment until all the facts are upon you."
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In a flood the water goes everywhere, you don't have to think about it. In a drought, if you want water, you have to direct it carefully along each inch of its path.
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It's a shadow life and after a while it gets to you. Nannies, assistants, agents, secretaries, mothers---women are used to it. Men have a lower tolerance.
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at any time of the day corduroy is a highly stressful fabric. Rent collectors wear it. Tax collectors, too. History teachers add leather elbow patches. To
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you go back and back and back and it's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe. Do you think anybody is English? Really English? It's a fairy-tale!
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. Even
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Ludzie nie zaklepuja sobie innych ludzi. Podejmuja swiadoma decyzje, ze beda z nimi. To wymaga wiary. Rysujesz kolo na piasku i zgadzasz sie w nim stac, i wierzyc w nie.
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Kiki began to giggle. Now Howard let go of Zora and held his wife instead, gripping he from behind. His arms could not go entirely around her, but still they walked in this manner down the small hill towards the gates of the park. This was one of the little ways in which eh said sorry. They were meant to add up each day.
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She let Howard reinvent, retouch. When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of 'Hallelujah' by a kid called Buckley, Kiki had thought yes, that's right, our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day.
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They didn't mean it to be like this. But it was like this. Both had other intentions. Howard had knocked on the door eight minutes ago, filled with hope, his heart loosened by music, his mind stunned and opened by the appalling proximity of death. He was a big malleable ball of potential change, waiting on the doorstep. Eight minutes ago. But once inside, everything was the same as it had always been. He didn't mean to be so aggressive, or ..
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Harry just wanted Howard to sit down again, start again. There were four more hours of quality viewing lined up before bedtime... all of which he and his son might watch together in silent companionship, occasionally commenting on this presenter's overbite, another's small hands or sexual preference. And this would all be another way of saying: It's good to see you. It's been too long. We're family. But Howard couldn't do this when he was s..
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Even if you fear it you're curious to see it.
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Cim dele zustavala o samote, tim neurcitejsi a mene ohranicena si pripadala. Jako tekutina vylita z nadoby. Videla sama sebe, jak klouze z lavicky na zem a nabva podobu zvirete. Po ctyrech dobehla na hranici mokreho asfaltu a prehoupla se do travy a mokre hliny. Hnala se dal, nyni jeste rychleji, protoze uz zjistila, jak ovladat dva pary nohou naraz, hbite uhanela pres travnik a umela navrsicka, pres Zahradni zatisi a kvetinove zahonky do k..
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hruza se ze vsech emoci, co jich na svete je, nejvic vzpira tomu, aby si ji clovek dokazal udrzet dele nez okamzik.
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Zadie Smith |
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Her subject was pride, in all its forms.
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Zadie Smith |
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My father was sent to get the shoes. The pink of the leather turned out to be a lighter shade than I'd hoped, it looked like the underside of a kitten, and the sole was a dirty gray cat's tongue, and there were no long pink satin ribbons to criss-cross over the ankles, no, only a sad little elastic strap which my father had sewn on himself.
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Brute force outraged her, I think, because it was outside her beloved realm of language, and in response to it she really had nothing to say.
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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 ..
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Rightfully she should have been fearful of life. Instead she was recklessly bold.
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You came in with a picky head, uneven and coarse, disguised underneath a baseball cap, and you left swiftly afterwards a new man, smelling sweetly of coconut oil and with a cut as sharp and clean as a swear word.
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Yet when I waved at those two girls I noticed I couldn't rid myself of the idea that they were timeless symbols of girlhood, or of childish friendship.
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It was the spirit of the times: we applied high theory to shampoo ads, philosophy to NWA videos.
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I saw I was lucky to have Lamin: while he engaged in his favorite activity--intense, whispered financial negotiation, with several parties at once--I was free to wander over to the cannon, to sit astride it and look out over the water. I tried to
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But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others.
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The clarity disturbed me. "She"
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Oh, sister - good news - I'm getting married!" I hugged her but felt the familiar smile fasten itself on my face, the same one I wore in London and New York in the face of similar news, and I experienced the same acute sense of betrayal. I was ashamed to feel that way but couldn't help it, a piece of my heart closed against her."
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Don't give me face! How you be offended? You know! Is truth!
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My late twenties had passed in a weird state of timelessness, and I think now that not everyone could have fallen into a life like that, that I must have been somehow primed for it.
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Yes, yes, many months ago. But your mother is someone who will always be in my life. She's not the kind of person who leaves your life when she's in it. Anyway, when someone you care about gets ill, all the other business...it just goes.
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Subtle people. Two steps ahead.
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but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What"
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Poverty is not just a headline, my love, it's a lived reality, on the ground--and education is at the heart of it." "I"
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The river split this finger of land in half throughout its length, and the airport was on the other side.
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Nobody seemed sure if it was the last ferry. We waited. Time passed, the sky turned pink.
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Zadie Smith |
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I was completely unreachable, for the first time in years. It gave me an unexpected but not unpleasant sense of stillness, of being outside of time: it reminded me somehow of childhood.
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who might have run faster than a speeding train, if they had been free to do so, but for whom, born in the wrong time, in the wrong place, all stops were closed, who were never even permitted to enter the station. And wasn't I so much freer than any of them--born in England, in modern times--not to mention so much lighter, so much straighter of nose, so much less likely to be mistaken for the very essence of Blackness itself? What could pos..
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