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Zadie Smith Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
— Zadie Smith, Fail Better
Tagged: Writing, write, Writer Secrets, writer reason, Life, Reason, motivation
“You are never stronger…than when you land on the other side of despair.”
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth: A Novel
Tagged: strength, Bravery, Despair, Problems
“Internal time stretched and stilled, inattentive to the minutes and hours outside of itself.”
— Zadie Smith, NW: A Novel
“She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.”
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth: A Novel
Tagged: Women, sexuality, White Teeth
“It's a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, "Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn't love me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me." Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll---then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth: A Novel
Tagged: Read In Your 20s
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