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Because Quotes by Zadie Smith
- Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a…
- Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
- All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I…
- Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is…
- I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to…
- I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time…
- It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm…
- Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do…
- Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote…
More Because Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle