Zadie Smith Quotes
Zadie Smith Quotes
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
2552Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
3711 Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.
2778 Time is how you spend your love.
4341 In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
4566 Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.
2805 When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
4492 It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
3817 Not everyone wants this conventional little life you’re rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it’s time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid.
4632 This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.
2449 And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already-and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing...I'd rather be alone.
3820 The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation...
2482 This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.
2656 Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
3122 American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has lost anything. I find that very sad. Do you know what I mean?
4364 My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.
1921 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.
1725 Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?
3796 You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
1339 They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.
2459 More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.
4791 Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else was subjugated to this ruling passion, reading stories. As a consequence, I can barely add a column of double digits, I have not the slightest idea of how a plane flies, I can't draw any better than a five-year-old.
1834 The past is always tense, the future perfect.
1193 The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.
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