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“As a rule of social etiquette, when confronted with a pixelated screen of a dozen people, all of them inquiring, somewhat half-heartedly, as to “how you are,” it is appropriate to make the expected, decent and accurate claim that you are fine and privileged, lucky compared to so many others, inconvenienced, yes, melancholy often, but not suffering.” (Intimations Quotes)
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating your concept of reality. But it can at least be brought to mind; acknowledged comprehended, even atoned for through transformative action. By comparing your privilege with that of others you may be able to modify both your world and the worlds outside your world – if the will is there to do it. Suffering is not like that. Suffering has an absolution relation to the suffering individual – it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like ‘privilege’.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating, your conception of reality.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“Ever since I was a child my only thought or insight into apocalypse, disaster or war has been that I myself have no “survival instinct,” nor any strong desire to survive, especially if what lies on the other side of survival is just me.
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“Experience – mystifying, overwhelming, conscious, subconscious – rolls over everybody. We try to adapt, to learn, to accommodate, sometimes resisting, other times submitting to, whatever confronts us. But writers go further: they take this largely shapeless bewilderment and pour it into a mould of their own devising. Writing is all resistance.
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“Experience rolls over everybody. We try to adapt, to learn, to accommodate, sometimes resisting, other times submitting to, whatever confronts us. Writers go further: they take this largely shapeless bewilderment and pout it into a mold of their own devising. Writing is all resistance.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“I did come out with two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“I do feel comforted to discover I’m not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“If our elected representatives have contempt for us, if the forces of so-called law and order likewise hold us in contempt, it’s because they think we have no recourse, and no power, except for the one force they have long assumed too splintered, too divided and too forgotten to be of any use: the power of the people. ”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“In those days, the sharp end of my spade was primed against chatty baristas, overly friendly mothers, needy students, curious readers — anyone I considered a threat to the program.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“People find themselves applauding a national health service that their own government criminally underfunded and neglected these past ten years. People thank God for ‘essential’ workers they once considered lowly, who not so long ago they despised for wanting fifteen bucks an hour.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“Since that moment, one form of crisis has collided with another, and I am no more a Stoic now than I was when I opened that ancient book. But I did come out with two invaluable intimations. Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
“Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.”
Zadie Smith
Intimations
