Friendship Quotes by Zadie Smith

14 Friendship quotes by Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith’s keen eye for cultural nuance is evident across these fourteen friendship excerpts. Her contemporary prose blends humor and depth, offering fresh perspectives on how friendships evolve in a complex world.

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When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual…

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Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's…

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“...within our intimacy, I could not be a girl, nor could I be anyone's baby, I could only be a female human,…

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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's…

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“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A…

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“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual…

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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with…

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“It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have…

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I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are…

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“They were married before they were friends, which is another way of saying: Their marriage was the occasion of their friendship. They…

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“Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top…

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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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