"Most of the cruelty in the world is…" — Zadie Smith
"Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy."
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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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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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Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.
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More Cruelty Quotes
This quote is filed under Cruelty Quotes,
one of 773 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
— Isaac Asimov
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
— Margaret Atwood
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they…
— William Blake
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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have…
— George W. Bush
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The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they…
— George W. Bush
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls…
— George Clooney
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