Zadie Smith Quotes
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.
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There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)
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Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
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I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
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Part of the responsibility of the technology industry is to anticipate the challenges of the vast majority of its future users and proactively start thinking about them now and proactively build products that address those challenges.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
