Zadie Smith Short Quotes

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I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

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Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical.

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.. and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game.

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Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream.

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The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

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A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.

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Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.

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… dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex.

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It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.

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You don't have favorites among your children but you do have allies.

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You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

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Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

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The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.

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The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

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Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

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His mind was a small thing with big holes through which passions regularly seeped out.

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Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

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This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

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Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

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The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

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These are hysterical times; any novel that aims at hysteria will now be effortlessly outstripped.

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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

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… and catholics give out forgiveness at the same time politicians give out promises and whores give out.

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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

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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.

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She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

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It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

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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.

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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

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