Zadie Smith quotes - page 2

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon... and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune. (Zadie Smith)
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. View quote
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For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost. View quote
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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. View quote
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Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea. View quote
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You are never stronger... than when you land on the other side of despair. View quote
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The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. View quote
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Time is how you spend your love. View quote
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Any woman who counts on her face is a fool. View quote
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Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people. View quote
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time. (Zadie Smith)
She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence. View quote
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... They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow. View quote
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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence. View quote
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. View quote
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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you. View quote
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I am very selfish, really. I lived for love. View quote
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Each couple is its own vaudeville act. View quote
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You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. View quote
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This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living. View quote
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I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. (Zadie Smith)
He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind. View quote
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When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion. View quote
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And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared. View quote
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I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human-I only love to be so. View quote
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