"The conflation of the simple in style with……" — Zadie Smith
"The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students."
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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 Amoral Quotes
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The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things…
— Emma Watson
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Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an…
— Lauren Slater
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The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed…
— Bruce Springsteen
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There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having…
— John Ensign
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An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get…
— William Faulkner
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Christian morality, laws rooted in the secular humanist belief that all consensual sexual acts are morally equal. That belief is…
— Pat Buchanan
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Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are…
— Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to…
— Menzies Campbell
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for…
— Gary Bauer
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I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care…
— Wendy Kaminer
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries…
— William Faulkner
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