Faith Quotes by Zadie Smith

13 Faith quotes by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith’s brief collection on faith offers a fresh, literary angle on trust and doubt. Though modest in number, each line carries her sharp wit and cultural insight, making it a solid starter for readers new to her work.

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“Faith is hard to achieve, easy to lose.”

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All tastes are expressions of belief.

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For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

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The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems…

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To me, these kind of everyday miseries act as a fatal disqualifier. My sunniest beliefs are basically contingent on the fact that…

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Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't…

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“They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion.…

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“He promised them a class that would challenge their own beliefs about the redemptive humanity of what is commonly called 'Art'. 'Art…

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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and…

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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for…

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“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can…

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“Maybe every author needs to keep faith with Nabokov, and every reader with Barthes. For how can you write, believing in Barthes?…

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“[..] as midnight inevitably came and went without the horsemen of the apocalypse making an appearance, Clara surprised herself by falling into…

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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,…

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Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

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