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Pictorial Quotes

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Philosopher Zhuangzi
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it’s not an overconsuming country.

Business leader Zhang Yin
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In the ’80s and ’90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.

Business leader Zhang Yin
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Waste paper is like a forest – paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

Business leader Zhang Yin
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Some day, I’d like to be known as the queen of containerboards.

Business leader Zhang Yin
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

Business leader Zhang Yin
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You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I think people I’m close to find it absolutely crazy that I’m famous.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I’ve got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I just love comic books. I’ve always loved comic book art, and I just think it’s amazing.

Singer Zayn Malik
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I’m kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn’t really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He’s a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I’d call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I’m kind of chilled out, laid back.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially – I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

Singer Zayn Malik
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It’s nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That’s part of my image, so it’s cool.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

Singer Zayn Malik
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We needed to make a sound that’s not gonna fit in with everything else – we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I’m really happy with the sound.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I’m always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you’re bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Our parents are obviously proud, but they’re still trying to get used to the fact that we’re in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn’t in it!

Singer Zayn Malik
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When we were on ‘The X Factor,’ we didn’t realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn’t really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.

Singer Zayn Malik
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It’s pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they’re going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 – it’s a big change for girls.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I do feel like I’ve missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.

Singer Zayn Malik
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

Singer Zayn Malik
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One Direction is the main thing I’m doing and I’m 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I’m not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

Singer Zayn Malik
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Two years ago, if anyone had told me I’d be doing half the stuff I’m doing, I wouldn’t have believed it.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I’m a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He’s too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I like the term ‘misunderstood.’ But I am a bit of a bad boy.

Singer Zayn Malik
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We didn’t really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It’s just crazy that people know our music. We’re just humbled by it.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I’m a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis’s house and watch ‘X Factor.’

Singer Zayn Malik
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It’s normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it’s cool.

Singer Zayn Malik
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The reason I don’t tweet as much as I used to, is because I’m sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

Singer Zayn Malik
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I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

Singer Zayn Malik
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English writing tends to fall into two categories – the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there’s definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That’s a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it’s not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I like books that don’t give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don’t, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It’s not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we’re also dark people with dark thoughts.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I don’t keep any copies of my books in the house – they go to my mum’s flat. I don’t like them around.

Writer Zadie Smith
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You can’t state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Writer Zadie Smith
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A lot of women, when they’re young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It’s easy to be friends when everyone’s 18.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I’m never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don’t know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don’t have the guts to admit that I do.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Can’t a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

Writer Zadie Smith
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I can’t add. I don’t understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I’ve always been able to, and I’ve always liked to. Even if I didn’t understand it, I liked to.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I love to dance, and sing – in the shower, not in public. I’m too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing – dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Writer Zadie Smith
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I’m thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I’ve come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

Writer Zadie Smith
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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.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability – these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

Writer Zadie Smith
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is ‘faith.’

Writer Zadie Smith
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

Writer Zadie Smith
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

Writer Zadie Smith
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When I think of the books I love, there’s always a little laughter in the dark.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I’m very attracted to exile literature – particularly Nabokov – exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Writer Zadie Smith
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That’s the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain – they cannot be otherwise.

Writer Zadie Smith
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

Writer Zadie Smith
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Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can’t be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I wrote ‘White Teeth’ in the late nineties. I didn’t really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

Writer Zadie Smith
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There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they’re not interested, because it’s also a country where everybody’s opinion is their opinion, and they really don’t give a damn what you think. So it’s a very odd experience.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you’re made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.

Writer Zadie Smith
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All my books are made up of other books. They’re all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn’t have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people’s novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

Writer Zadie Smith
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I don’t take notes. I don’t have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn’t work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Writer Zadie Smith
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People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

Writer Zadie Smith
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English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life – it changed the trajectory of my life.

Writer Zadie Smith
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If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn’t be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.

Writer Zadie Smith
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A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road – you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

Writer Zadie Smith
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

Writer Zadie Smith
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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: ‘How can I do it?’

Writer Zadie Smith
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

Writer Zadie Smith
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