"Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own."

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Source : "Brave, Brainy, Changeable - Zadie Smith Revealed" by Heller McAlpin, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.

Zadie Smith

#Connections Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Lady love, your love is peaceful like the summers breeze.”

Source : Song: Lady Love
“I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.”

Source : Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”
“The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.”
“I wouldn't touch a hot dog unless you put a condom on it! You realize that the job of a hot dog is to use parts of the animal that the Chinese can't figure out how to make into a belt? -timecode 1:11:10”
“WINNER:is A Runner who â€œWins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent Runners!”
“Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.”
“Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.”
“To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?”

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