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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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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
— Arnold Bennett
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my…
— David Bowie
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
— George Carlin
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Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three…
— Unknown Author
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there…
— William Blake
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
— Mason Cooley
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The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.
— Euripides
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I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my…
— Lord Mountbatten
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It's been just a year since the RNC committed to revamp the way they help our candidates with its 'Growth and Opportunity…
— Karl Rove
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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks;…
— Walter Raleigh
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A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
— Charlotte Rampling
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Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who…
— Helen Valentine
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