"It's easy to confuse a woman for a…" — Zadie Smith
"It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy"
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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 Confuse Quotes
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one of 441 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying…
— William Bernbach
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
— Brenda Blethyn
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
— Erma Bombeck
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
— William S. Burroughs
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Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
— Hillary Clinton
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
— Laurie Anderson
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's…
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
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