It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, a…

Zadie Smith
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate. ✨ On the beginning by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2006.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate. ✨ On the beginning by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2006.

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