"This is what divorce is: taking things you……" — Zadie Smith
"This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love."
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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 Divorce Quotes
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
— Margaret Atwood
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In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
— Lauren Bacall
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How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from…
— Lucille Ball
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I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of…
— Lucille Ball
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Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.
— Roseanne Barr
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When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even…
— Monica Bellucci
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious…
— Jack Benny
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting…
— Valerie Bertinelli
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My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says,…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who…
— Bjork
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