"The object of the passion is just an……" — Zadie Smith

"The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself."

— Zadie Smith

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191 Quotes by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most…
Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It…
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this…
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that…
Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people…
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for…
It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.
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 Accessories Quotes

This quote is filed under Accessories Quotes, one of 150 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice… — Alessandra Ambrosio
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter,… — Philip Kapleau
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose. — Alfred North Whitehead
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. — Coco Chanel
The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing… — Robert Graves
If you can remember all the accessories that go with your best outfit, the contents of your purse, the starting… — Stephen King
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an… — Erma Bombeck
The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value... — Ansel Adams
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth. — Harold Evans
We are now in the midst of our first television war ... the television environment [is] total and therefore invisible.… — Herman Melville
I like when a man has one strong accessory. If it's a watch, it has to be major. If you… — Riccardo Tisci

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