"For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling……" — Zadie Smith
"For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost."
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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 Boiling Quotes
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In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached…
— Benjamin Carson
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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and…
— Edna Lewis
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The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the…
— Charles Dickens
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I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold…
— Rumi
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One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling…
— John Ruskin
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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has…
— Grete Waitz
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Karate is like boiling water: without heat, it returns to it's tepid state
— Gichin Funakoshi
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I had a creative hot streak in the 1940s and since then I’ve been pot boiling.
— Stephen Shore
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What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs -…
— Kurt Cobain
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