"Full stories are as rare as honesty." — Zadie Smith

"Full stories are as rare as honesty."

— Zadie Smith

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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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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if… — Pietro Aretino
Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am… — Arthur Ashe
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe… — Chinua Achebe
I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art… — Saint Augustine
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties… — Sai Baba
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in… — Sai Baba
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with… — Charles Babbage

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