Zadie Smith on Optimism and Despair



BY Maria Popova

Link: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/02/08/zadie-smith-feel-free-optimism-and-despair/

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“Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.”



“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up,” John Steinbeck wrote to his best

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