Zadie Smith
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can have all kinds of ideas about who you are, but your life shows you.
So I'm kind of finding out as I go along.
By accident, yeah, but that's not something I ever would have, you know, chosen.
They thought it was suicide.
I was smoking a cigarette, which is one of the many life-shortening activities I've participated in over the decades, yeah.
Because my mom had kind of laid down the law and said no more smoking, so I was trying to do it surreptitiously and it went wrong.
Like the whole femur smashed in half and I had all kinds of smaller fractures.
I mean, it's still a thing.
People tell me I limp when it gets cold and it certainly gives me pain sometimes.
Yeah, I was very melancholy and...