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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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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
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I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in…
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But nothing warps time quite like childhood
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How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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A good model guides your thinking, a bad one warps it.
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
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When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:…
— Zadie Smith
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Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can…
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Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching…
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Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in…
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