"Sometimes you get a flash of what you……" — Zadie Smith
"Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people."
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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 Flash Quotes
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
— Margaret Atwood
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
— Travis Barker
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and…
— Arnold Bennett
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
— Annie Besant
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When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating,…
— Constantin Brancusi
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do…
— Luke Bryan
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is…
— Alan Alda
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I…
— Julie Andrews
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