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Me Quotes by Zadie Smith
- Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as…
- I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're…
- It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience…
- I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic…
- I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
- 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…
- When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly…
- Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
- You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.
- I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.
- You're a library of me.
- It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if…
- We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do…
- These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the…
- I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.
- The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character,…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale