One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

Zadie Smith
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  1. There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom. - Anonymous

  3. There are 1, 198, 500, 000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1, 198, 500, 000. See? Nothing to it. - Annie Dillard

  4. I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand. - Mary McCarthy

  5. When you tell the tale of how another person is from your perspective, you're making him or her into a character, a player in your own life story. This way of knowing does not bring you closer because it is really all about you. - Kira Asatryan

More Quotes By Zadie Smith
  1. Time is how you spend your love.

  2. People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it was populated, and before there were wars and jobs and colleges and...

  3. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

  4. Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

  5. Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

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