"Young people understand the world. They should be……" — Zadie Smith
"Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives."
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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 Know Nothing Quotes
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
— Yogi Berra
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I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.
— Sandra Bullock
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I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.
— Sandra Bullock
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you…
— Lord Byron
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a…
— Neville Chamberlain
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will…
— Joan of Arc
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If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what…
— Amy Carmichael
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When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back…
— Amy Carmichael
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Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is…
— Yogaswami
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I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
— Muhammad Ali
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
— Jonathan Swift
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