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Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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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…
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just…
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I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and…
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of…
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
— Epictetus
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Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and…
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
— Chanakya
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…
— James Madison
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…
— Salman Rushdie
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the…
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