"The nineties, ecstatic decade!" — Zadie Smith
"The nineties, ecstatic decade!"
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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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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our…
— Bob Beauprez
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
— Danny Boyle
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I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty…
— George W. Bush
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started…
— Jason Aldean
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It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than…
— Graydon Carter
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President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a…
— William J. Clinton
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Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
— Francesca Annis
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the…
— Bella Abzug
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Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem…
— Erma Bombeck
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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all…
— Greg Mortenson
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