"Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join……" — Zadie Smith
"Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything."
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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 Fashionable Quotes
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I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought…
— Antonio Banderas
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We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going…
— Antonio Banderas
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Kindness is always fashionable.
— Amelia Barr
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If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The…
— Giorgio Armani
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I'm against fashionable thinking.
— Herman Kahn
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most…
— Thomas Sowell
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There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up fashionable untruths than unfashionable truths.
— Bertrand Russell
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
— Salman Rushdie
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It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and…
— Richard Dawkins
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If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!
— Unknown Author
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If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too…
— Beau Brummell
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