"It's gotten to a point where everybody is……" — Zadie Smith
"It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties."
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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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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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Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
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More Concerned Quotes
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one of 1,963 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the…
— Neil Armstrong
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
— Bashar al-Assad
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
— Jane Austen
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial…
— Russell Baker
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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute…
— Dave Barry
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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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