What did Zadie Smith mean by: Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people. - Zadie Smith Author · England Copy
+ The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Objects, Passion, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ The future’s another country, man… And I still ain’t got a passport. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Country, Passports, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ [George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn’t a thing left to chance. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Chance, Left, Precise, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Baby, Baptism, Kissing, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ A writer’s duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Duty, Writing, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ The past is always tense, the future perfect. Feraz Zeid, June 12, 2023December 29, 2023, Zadie Smith, Future, Perfect, Tense, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Divorce, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
+ The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise. Feraz Zeid, December 24, 2023January 10, 2024, Zadie Smith, Novel, 0 - Zadie Smith Author · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
