"He did not consider if or how or……" — Zadie Smith
"He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away."
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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 Confirmation Quotes
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
— Annie Besant
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I…
— Wernher von Braun
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It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only…
— Karl Popper
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed…
— Michael Shermer
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Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual…
— Rennie Ellis
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We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own…
— Norm MacDonald
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You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the…
— Wayne Dyer
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The fact that the UFOs and UFOnauts use advanced scientific devices and extraordinary powers (reported by many trained and highly…
— George Fawcett
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Over the months, I kept seeing more feathers, especially at moments when I was really down and distraught. You ask…
— Lana Parrilla
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Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent…
— Billy Zane
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