"I want to write without shame or pride……" — Zadie Smith
"I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely."
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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 Compensation Quotes
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one of 179 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
— Lord Acton
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life…
— William Barclay
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Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess…
— Bob Beauprez
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to…
— David Cameron
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The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth…
— Unknown Author
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
— Phyllis McGinley
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double.…
— George Sand
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Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
— George Santayana
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Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do…
— Max Lucado
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