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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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Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
— Louis Armstrong
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Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.
— Benjamin Franklin
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A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.
— Brian Williams
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If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
— Curtis LeMay
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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is…
— Roy Hattersley
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A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is…
— Sarah Ruhl
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These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the…
— Howard Zinn
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Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.
— John Spence
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The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that…
— Thomas Paine
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When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all…
— Jay Mohr
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Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and…
— Omar Suleiman
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Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people…
— Antony Gormley
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