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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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Even if you fear it you're curious to see it.
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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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The clarity disturbed me. "She"
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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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Don't give me face! How you be offended? You know! Is truth!
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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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Subtle people. Two steps ahead.
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Zadie Smith |
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but that coldness stopped up the sentence in my mouth. "What"
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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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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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Zadie Smith |
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free-form conversations that could eat up whole days.
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Now see, with me, said Louie, tiring suddenly of his daughter's talk, with me I didn't need dance school, matter of fact I used to rule the dance floor!
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They'd met people like me before. They knew how little reality we can take. * * *
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Zadie Smith |
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yes, with the mothers she had to make a little more effort, drowning them in language until they understood how out of their depth they were and the thin stream of their objections was completely subsumed by the quick-running currents of my mother's talk.
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She was motivated by something else: impatience. To Aimee poverty was one of the world's sloppy errors, one among many, which might be easily corrected if only people would bring to the problem the focus she brought to everything.
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Yes, you could make something ornamental. That's your freedom! Take it! Who knows? You might be the next Augusta Savage!" I"
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There is a mania in the playground for grabbing vaginas.
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Zadie Smith |
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It was like tag, but a girl was never "It," only boys were "It," girls simply ran and ran until we found ourselves cornered in some quiet spot, away from the eyes of dinner ladies and playground monitors, at which point our knickers were pulled aside and a little hand shot into our vaginas, we were roughly, frantically tickled, and then the boy ran away, and the whole thing started up again from the top."
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Everybody's path crossed with hers at the same moment, as soon as she emerged she was uncontained by space and time, with not one path to cross but all paths--they were all hers, like the Queen in Alice in Wonderland, all ways were her way--and of course millions of people felt as I did.
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Zadie Smith |
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Marilyn Monroe was pretty far along that curve, as close as one can come to dancing while still walking. In her classic 1953 movie Niagara she takes a legendary walk away from the camera, hips swinging--roiling--in a mode long since memorialized by catwalk models, drag queens, prima donnas, freaks and queers, street punks of all persuasions.
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Zadie Smith |
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Usually when we compliment a dancer we say: she makes it look easy. This is not the case with Aimee. Part of her secret, I felt as I watched her, is the way she's able to summon joy out of effort, for no move of hers flowed instinctively or naturally from the next, each "step" was clearly visible, choreographed, and yet as she sweated away at their execution, the hard work itself felt erotic, it was like witnessing a woman cross the line at..
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She accepts everything that has happened to her as her destiny, no more surprised or alienated to be who she is than I imagine Cleopatra was to be Cleopatra. I
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Zadie Smith |
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when she'd finished she would give one of four possible judgments. "Zippy"--which was good; "Important"--which was very good; "Controversial"--which could be either good or bad, you never knew; or "Lidderary," which was pronounced with a sigh and an eye roll and was very bad."
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Zadie Smith |
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A superstar takes everybody everywhere. "What"
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