"You don't have favourites among your children, but……" — Zadie Smith

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies. - Zadie Smith

"You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies."

— 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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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed… — Joe Biden
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating… — Mark Bittman
It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American… — John Boehner
We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel. — John Boehner
When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts,… — John O. Brennan
Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks… — Madeleine Albright
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. — William S. Burroughs
We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile. — George W. Bush
The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger. — George W. Bush
What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and… — Hillary Clinton
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. — Leonard Cohen
If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is… — Maya Angelou

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