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Ali Smith Quote: “Hope is exactly that, that’s all it is, a matter of how we deal with the negative acts towards human beings by other human beings in the world, remembering that they and we are all human, that nothing human is alien to us, the foul and the fair, and that most important of all we’re here for a mere blink of the eyes, that’s all.”

51. “Hope is exactly that, that’s all it is, a matter of how we deal with the negative acts towards human beings by other human beings in the world, remembering that they and we are all human, that nothing human is alien to us, the foul and the fair, and that most important of all we’re here for a mere blink of the eyes, that’s all.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s so warm it’s almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I’ve never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It’s never sentimental. It’s generous, but it’s sardonic too. And whenever it’s sardonic, a moment later it’s generous again.”

52. “It’s so warm it’s almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I’ve never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It’s never sentimental. It’s generous, but it’s sardonic too. And whenever it’s sardonic, a moment later it’s generous again.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.”

53. “The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.”

54. “Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

55. “Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.”

56. “The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s about the connecting force from form to form. It’s the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It’s the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.”

57. “It’s about the connecting force from form to form. It’s the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It’s the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.”

Ali Smith Quote: “There’s always, there’ll always be, more story. That’s what story is.”

58. “There’s always, there’ll always be, more story. That’s what story is.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s all right to forget, you know, he said. It’s good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we’d never sleep ever again.”

59. “It’s all right to forget, you know, he said. It’s good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we’d never sleep ever again.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.”

60. “The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous.”

61. “Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They’re foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.”

62. “But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They’re foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?”

63. “Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?”

Ali Smith Quote: “Time is just ‘one damn thing after another ’, Margaret Atwood says. That sounds like conventional narrative plot. And at the end of our allotted time, we’ll end up in one of those, a conventional plot I mean, unless we stipulate otherwise in our wills.”

64. “Time is just ‘one damn thing after another ’, Margaret Atwood says. That sounds like conventional narrative plot. And at the end of our allotted time, we’ll end up in one of those, a conventional plot I mean, unless we stipulate otherwise in our wills.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It was all : it was nothing : it was more than enough.”

65. “It was all : it was nothing : it was more than enough.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.”

66. “Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It was cruel, though, to want to, and tempting, so I’d become an expert at almost.”

67. “It was cruel, though, to want to, and tempting, so I’d become an expert at almost.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Somehow this wasn’t the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren’t relevant in the slightest. Things just happened. Then they were over. Time just passed. Partly it felt unpleasant, to think like that, rude even. Partly it felt good. It was kind of a relief.”

68. “Somehow this wasn’t the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren’t relevant in the slightest. Things just happened. Then they were over. Time just passed. Partly it felt unpleasant, to think like that, rude even. Partly it felt good. It was kind of a relief.”

Ali Smith Quote: “That’s the thing about things. They fall apart, always have, always will, it’s in their nature.”

69. “That’s the thing about things. They fall apart, always have, always will, it’s in their nature.”

Ali Smith Quote: “In her dream, she slapped the past in its face.”

70. “In her dream, she slapped the past in its face.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress, and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.”

71. “Poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress, and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.”

Ali Smith Quote: “His little sister is brilliant. She is at her desk deep in a book, half-opened books all over her desk, all over the floor and the bed. She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

72. “His little sister is brilliant. She is at her desk deep in a book, half-opened books all over her desk, all over the floor and the bed. She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?”

73. “Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?”

Ali Smith Quote: “A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.”

74. “A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about. Then the seedheads rattle, the seeds fall out. Then there’s even more language waiting to come up.”

75. “Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about. Then the seedheads rattle, the seeds fall out. Then there’s even more language waiting to come up.”

Ali Smith Quote: “And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?”

76. “And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?”

Ali Smith Quote: “We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.”

77. “We have to hope, Daniel was saying, that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The days are unexpectedly mild. It doesn’t feel that far from summer, not really, if it weren’t for the underbite of the day, the lacy creep of the dark and the damp at its edges, the plants calm in the folding themselves away, the beads of the condensation on the webstrings hung between things.”

78. “The days are unexpectedly mild. It doesn’t feel that far from summer, not really, if it weren’t for the underbite of the day, the lacy creep of the dark and the damp at its edges, the plants calm in the folding themselves away, the beads of the condensation on the webstrings hung between things.”

Ali Smith Quote: “This story is true and happened once in the future long ago.”

79. “This story is true and happened once in the future long ago.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Beauty is the true way to change things for the better. To make things better. There should be a lot more beauty in all our lives. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. There is no such thing as fake beauty. Which is why beauty is so powerful. Beauty assuages.”

80. “Beauty is the true way to change things for the better. To make things better. There should be a lot more beauty in all our lives. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. There is no such thing as fake beauty. Which is why beauty is so powerful. Beauty assuages.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I don’t like it when the summer goes and the autumn comes, she said. Daniel took her by the shoulders and turned her round. He didn’t say anything. But all across the landscape down behind them it was still sunlit blue and green. She looked up at him showing her how the summer was still there. Nobody spoke like Daniel. Nobody didn’t speak like Daniel.”

81. “I don’t like it when the summer goes and the autumn comes, she said. Daniel took her by the shoulders and turned her round. He didn’t say anything. But all across the landscape down behind them it was still sunlit blue and green. She looked up at him showing her how the summer was still there. Nobody spoke like Daniel. Nobody didn’t speak like Daniel.”

Ali Smith Quote: “He thinks about how, whatever being alive is, with all its pasts and presents and futures, it is most itself in the moments when you surface from a depth of numbness or forgetfulness that you didn’t even know you were at, and break the surface.”

82. “He thinks about how, whatever being alive is, with all its pasts and presents and futures, it is most itself in the moments when you surface from a depth of numbness or forgetfulness that you didn’t even know you were at, and break the surface.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we’ll find out – and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out – what happened.”

83. “But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we’ll find out – and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out – what happened.”

Ali Smith Quote: “That’s what love is, this matter of hopeful travel against the usual deeply troubling odds.”

84. “That’s what love is, this matter of hopeful travel against the usual deeply troubling odds.”

Ali Smith Quote: “A great many men don’t understand a woman full of joy, even more don’t understand paintings full of joy by a woman.”

85. “A great many men don’t understand a woman full of joy, even more don’t understand paintings full of joy by a woman.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?”

86. “Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?”

Ali Smith Quote: “She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn’t known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in.”

87. “She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn’t known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in.”

Ali Smith Quote: “This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.”

88. “This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I’m everything that makes everything. I’m everything that unmakes everything. I’m fire. I’m flood. I’m pestilence. I’m the ink, the paper, the grass, the tree, the leaves, the leaf, the greenness in the leaf. I’m the vein in the leaf. I’m the voice that tells no story.”

89. “I’m everything that makes everything. I’m everything that unmakes everything. I’m fire. I’m flood. I’m pestilence. I’m the ink, the paper, the grass, the tree, the leaves, the leaf, the greenness in the leaf. I’m the vein in the leaf. I’m the voice that tells no story.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet’s just made them both more visible. That’s maybe a good thing.”

90. “Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet’s just made them both more visible. That’s maybe a good thing.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at.”

91. “Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The proper word for me,” Robin Goodman says, “is me.”

92. “The proper word for me,” Robin Goodman says, “is me.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?”

93. “Everywhere’s a here, isn’t it?”

Ali Smith Quote: “Time travel is real, Daniel said. We do it all the time. Moment to moment, minute to minute.”

94. “Time travel is real, Daniel said. We do it all the time. Moment to moment, minute to minute.”

Ali Smith Quote: “You hold me very tight in under my clothes, and if there’s a library anywhere near then someone just removed its roof, the shelves just flooded with the sun and all the old books just remembered what it means to be bound in skin and to have a spine.”

95. “You hold me very tight in under my clothes, and if there’s a library anywhere near then someone just removed its roof, the shelves just flooded with the sun and all the old books just remembered what it means to be bound in skin and to have a spine.”

Ali Smith Quote: “There’s always, there’ll always be, more story. That’s what story is... It’s the never-ending leaf-fall.”

96. “There’s always, there’ll always be, more story. That’s what story is... It’s the never-ending leaf-fall.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with – more – makes what’s being told. A story is its style.”

97. “But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with – more – makes what’s being told. A story is its style.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage – as soon as you even attempt to engage.”

98. “Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage – as soon as you even attempt to engage.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I don’t know, her mother says. I don’t know much about it. It was quite hard to find out anything. But I’m finding it quite enjoyable, not knowing.”

99. “I don’t know, her mother says. I don’t know much about it. It was quite hard to find out anything. But I’m finding it quite enjoyable, not knowing.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Fear is one of my belongings. Fear will always be a part of any belonging, anywhere, that I ever do, for the rest of my life. I fought hard, to get here to your country. And the first thing you did when I arrived was hand me a letter saying, “Welcome to a country in which you are not welcome. You are now a designated unwelcome person with whom we will do as we please.”

100. “Fear is one of my belongings. Fear will always be a part of any belonging, anywhere, that I ever do, for the rest of my life. I fought hard, to get here to your country. And the first thing you did when I arrived was hand me a letter saying, “Welcome to a country in which you are not welcome. You are now a designated unwelcome person with whom we will do as we please.”

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