"Fate is a quantity very much like TV:……" — Zadie Smith
"Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else."
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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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More Directed Quotes
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The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for…
— John Adams
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly…
— Harry Browne
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America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them…
— George W. Bush
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When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
— Tadao Ando
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
— Albert Einstein
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Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice…
— Nhat Hanh
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
— John Dewey
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To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because…
— Barack Obama
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein
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