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Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of…
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all…
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This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there…
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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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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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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures…
— Cecil Beaton
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War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to…
— Smedley Butler
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better…
— Robin Sharma
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Something impractical cannot be beautiful.
— Otto Wagner
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The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is…
— Marquis de Sade
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In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80…
— Ralph Miller
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