"Full stories are as rare as honesty." — Zadie Smith
"Full stories are as rare as honesty."
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Zadie Smith
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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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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if…
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness…
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am…
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into…
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art…
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in…
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I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with…
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