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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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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
— C.S. Lewis
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As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from…
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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…
— Cyril Connolly
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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.
— Carrie Fisher
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Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.
— Thurman Arnold
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Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy…
— Steve Almond
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder…
— N.D. Wilson
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