Zadie Smith Quotes About Perspective

Quotes about: Perspective

• I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

  Zadie Smith

  Meaningful, Children, Pain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.

  Zadie Smith

  Essence, Opposites, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

  Zadie Smith

  Perspective, Trying, Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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