"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and……" — Zadie Smith
"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."
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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
- A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
- Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
- Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
- But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
- Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
- Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
- Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
- I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
- It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
- Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
- 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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