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“There’s a line of Salman Rushdie’s, I think it’s in an essay, where he says: our lives teach us who we are. And I think that’s the case. It’s not that you have a set identity, it’s that by your actions you find out what sort of person you are. And the news is not always... lovely.”
 
Zadie Smith (in conversation with Jan Dalley), “Lunch with the FT,” FT Weekend (12/13 November 2016)
 

of the time
on one side

on one spot
on the other

to the outer side of
or not

observing
was rather timid about

the opportunity
is reached. By