Nw Zadie Smith Quotes & Sayings

A writer's refuge is imagination and the possibilities it provides. — Mark Rubinstein

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech. — Bill Maher

Yeah, well, we're all jerks at one time or another. Don't beat yourself up over it. — Sarah Felix Burns

Fate don't like it when people take up more space than they ought to ... — Terry Pratchett

Life's not a video game, Felix- there aren't a certain number of points that send you to the next level. There isn't actually any next level. The bad news is that everybody dies at the end. Game Over. — Zadie Smith

Here lie a man and a woman. The man is more beautiful than the woman. And for this reason there have been times when the woman has feared that she loves the man more than he loves her. He has always denied this. — Zadie Smith

I'm just a nice and easy person. — Helmut Jahn

That which I think only according to the standard of my individuality is not binding on another; it can be conceived otherwise; it is an accidental, merely subjective view. — Ludwig Feuerbach

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. — George Meredith

You're lucky that you find life so easy, Felix. You're lucky that you're happy, that you know how to be happy, that you're a good person- and you want everyone to be happy and good because you are, and to find things easy because you do. Do it ever occur to you some people might not find life as easy to live as you do? — Zadie Smith

...A secure future seemed mapped out for me. Too secure, too mapped out. If I carried on in medicine, I realized I'd have a pretty good idea exactly what I'd be doing ten, twenty and even thirty years from that moment. It struck me like a halibut from the North Sea that that was not the way my life should go at all. What was the point of working on through the age of sixty-five and taking a chance on a better reincarnation next time? — Graham Chapman

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible. — W. H. Auden

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon. — Carol Leifer