"Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence……" — Zadie Smith

"Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived."

— 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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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against… — Julian Assange
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.… — Chinua Achebe
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling… — Rowan Atkinson
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's… — Paul Auster
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me… — Paul Auster
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do… — Walter Bagehot

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