"And so it happened again, the daily miracle……" — Zadie Smith
"And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared."
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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site.
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
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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…
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
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But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
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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…
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Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
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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…
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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…
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
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When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
— Ray Bradbury
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I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next…
— Richard Briers
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I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for…
— Julie Burchill
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my…
— Jackie Chan
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any…
— Loraine Boettner
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If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon…
— John D. Rockefeller
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I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed…
— Louis Bleriot
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