Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. October 25, 1975
Birthday: October 25
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.
source: Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage
topic: Laughing, Scared, Peanuts, Miscegenation, Dissolution, Penetration