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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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This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.…
— Joseph Campbell
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is…
— Elizabeth Edwards
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The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God…
— Richard Rohr
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It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of…
— Maxine
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What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an…
— William J. Clinton
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This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's…
— Zadie Smith
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The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a…
— Erika Christensen
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