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Ali Smith Quote: “In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he’d kept for himself.”

101. “In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he’d kept for himself.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The Daily Telegraph reported next day on how the local authorities were apologizing for not having given enough notice about the film unit’s plans to people who lived in the city, and how public confusion and offence had soon shifted to a mass taking of selfies.”

102. “The Daily Telegraph reported next day on how the local authorities were apologizing for not having given enough notice about the film unit’s plans to people who lived in the city, and how public confusion and offence had soon shifted to a mass taking of selfies.”

Ali Smith Quote: “He was clearly in love with Amber too, and this time it wasn’t the usual water off the back of the duck. Instead, the duck, wounded by a hunter and bewildered because half its head had been shot way, and was still tottering about on its webby feet by the side of the pond. From the one side it looked like a duck usually looks. From the other, it was a different story.”

103. “He was clearly in love with Amber too, and this time it wasn’t the usual water off the back of the duck. Instead, the duck, wounded by a hunter and bewildered because half its head had been shot way, and was still tottering about on its webby feet by the side of the pond. From the one side it looked like a duck usually looks. From the other, it was a different story.”

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.”

104. “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: “But I prefer the windy days, the days that strip me back, blasted, tossed, who knows where, imagine them, purple-red, silver-pink, natural confetti, thin, fragile, easily crushed and blackened, fading already wherever the air’s taken them across the city, the car parks, the streets, the ragged grass verges, dog-ear and adrift on the surfaces of the puddles, flat to the gutter stones, mixing with the litter, their shards of colour circling in the leafy-grimy corners of yards.”

105. “But I prefer the windy days, the days that strip me back, blasted, tossed, who knows where, imagine them, purple-red, silver-pink, natural confetti, thin, fragile, easily crushed and blackened, fading already wherever the air’s taken them across the city, the car parks, the streets, the ragged grass verges, dog-ear and adrift on the surfaces of the puddles, flat to the gutter stones, mixing with the litter, their shards of colour circling in the leafy-grimy corners of yards.”

Ali Smith Quote: “That’s one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”

106. “That’s one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Elisabeth skims the day’s paper on her phone to catch up on the usual huge changes there’ve been in the last half hour.”

107. “Elisabeth skims the day’s paper on her phone to catch up on the usual huge changes there’ve been in the last half hour.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.”

108. “Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The twentieth century was wedded to the remembrance of things past, with Proust making the act of remembrance an art of sensory timeslip in the first texts which would become A la Recherche du Temps Perdu in 1913 and with Joyce making an epic forever out of a single passing ordinary day with the serialization of the first chapters of Ulysses not long after.”

109. “The twentieth century was wedded to the remembrance of things past, with Proust making the act of remembrance an art of sensory timeslip in the first texts which would become A la Recherche du Temps Perdu in 1913 and with Joyce making an epic forever out of a single passing ordinary day with the serialization of the first chapters of Ulysses not long after.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.”

110. “Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.”

Ali Smith Quote: “With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history’d have us be. We’re only here by the grace and the work of others. I am anyway. Here’s to those others who helped, that’s my prayer when I go to my bed, and may I be such an other to a good many myself.”

111. “With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history’d have us be. We’re only here by the grace and the work of others. I am anyway. Here’s to those others who helped, that’s my prayer when I go to my bed, and may I be such an other to a good many myself.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn’t authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.”

112. “Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to be an authentic old door. Maybe everything there is isn’t authentic any more. Maybe everything there is is a kind of pretending.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Nothing comic isn’t serious.”

113. “Nothing comic isn’t serious.”

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea inside you.”

115. “A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea inside you.”

Ali Smith Quote: “There was this different quality to the light even only four days past the shortest day; the shift, the reversal, from increase of darkness to increase of light, revealed that a coming back of light was at the heart of midwinter equally as much as the waning of light.”

116. “There was this different quality to the light even only four days past the shortest day; the shift, the reversal, from increase of darkness to increase of light, revealed that a coming back of light was at the heart of midwinter equally as much as the waning of light.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The people in this country are in furious rages at each other after the last vote, she said, and the government we’ve got has done nothing to assuage it and instead is using people’s rage for its own political expediency. Which is a grand old fascist trick if ever I saw one, and a very dangerous game to play. And what’s happening in the United States is directly related, and probably financially related.”

117. “The people in this country are in furious rages at each other after the last vote, she said, and the government we’ve got has done nothing to assuage it and instead is using people’s rage for its own political expediency. Which is a grand old fascist trick if ever I saw one, and a very dangerous game to play. And what’s happening in the United States is directly related, and probably financially related.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.”

118. “She was working at her computer in her office, doing admin, which is short for administration, which is short for migraine-stimulant.”

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.”

119. “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.”

Ali Smith Quote: “We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we’ve read a book after reading it just once.”

120. “We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we’ve read a book after reading it just once.”

Ali Smith Quote: “See how it’s deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what’s happening right in front of our eyes.”

121. “See how it’s deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what’s happening right in front of our eyes.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”

122. “Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.”

123. “She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.”

Ali Smith Quote: “So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.”

124. “So always risk your skin, she said, and never fear losing it, cause it always does some good one way or another when the powers that be deign to take it off us.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Her father was stern. Her father disapproved. Her father had very strong reservations... Half Belgian, half Persian, staunch British conservative, he’d seen the Himalayas and Harrogate and had chosen accountancy.”

125. “Her father was stern. Her father disapproved. Her father had very strong reservations... Half Belgian, half Persian, staunch British conservative, he’d seen the Himalayas and Harrogate and had chosen accountancy.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I have always believed in not compromising the form the drama takes by underestimating what its natural potential offers.”

126. “I have always believed in not compromising the form the drama takes by underestimating what its natural potential offers.”

Ali Smith Quote: “A prison is a prison, he says. Whatever you fill the time with.”

127. “A prison is a prison, he says. Whatever you fill the time with.”

Ali Smith Quote: “And here was a summer day, asking to be longer. As if a summer’s day wasn’t long enough.”

128. “And here was a summer day, asking to be longer. As if a summer’s day wasn’t long enough.”

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.”

129. “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: “Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.”

130. “Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.”

131. “I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Sometimes, he says, we don’t know why people do what they do. But we can only do our best, the best we can do, in response, and try to be as good-humoured as possible while we do it.”

132. “Sometimes, he says, we don’t know why people do what they do. But we can only do our best, the best we can do, in response, and try to be as good-humoured as possible while we do it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The still-alives. They were all crazy.”

133. “The still-alives. They were all crazy.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.”

134. “I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The earth is made of it. Green. Moss, algae, lichen, mould. It’s the colour everything was before there were flowers, the colour of the first trees, the trees that didn’t have leaves, had needles instead, the trees that grew in the first hiatus between cold and warm -.”

135. “The earth is made of it. Green. Moss, algae, lichen, mould. It’s the colour everything was before there were flowers, the colour of the first trees, the trees that didn’t have leaves, had needles instead, the trees that grew in the first hiatus between cold and warm -.”

Ali Smith Quote: “What if the girl says. Instead of saying, this border divides places. We said, this border holds together two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible.”

136. “What if the girl says. Instead of saying, this border divides places. We said, this border holds together two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But fiction has the unique power of revealing something true.”

137. “But fiction has the unique power of revealing something true.”

Ali Smith Quote: “We move from one invisibility to another.”

138. “We move from one invisibility to another.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting.”

139. “Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Words are themselves organisms,...”

140. “Words are themselves organisms,...”

Ali Smith Quote: “Maybe it’s easier to talk to someone who won’t ever actually hear what you say.”

141. “Maybe it’s easier to talk to someone who won’t ever actually hear what you say.”

Ali Smith Quote: “You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth.”

142. “You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.”

143. “She was living in a time when historically it was permissible to smile like that above the face of someone who had died a violent death.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn’t be coincidence, would it?”

144. “Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn’t be coincidence, would it?”

Ali Smith Quote: “Words are like untying a corset – you can move into this great space with them.”

145. “Words are like untying a corset – you can move into this great space with them.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Reason not the need, the man says. Need not the reason.”

146. “Reason not the need, the man says. Need not the reason.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It isn’t a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”

147. “It isn’t a good enough answer, that one group of people can be in charge of the destinies of another group of people and choose whether to exclude them or include them. Human beings have to be more ingenious than this, and more generous. We’ve got to come up with a better answer.”

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.”

148. “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.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Imagine if people decided at birth never ever to throw away any of the shoes they wore over the whole course of a life, and had a special cupboard where they kept all these old shoes they’d walked about the world in. What would there be in such a shoe museum, when you opened its doors? Row upon row, perfectly preserved, the exact shapes we took at certain points in our lives? Or row upon row, rack upon rack, of nothing but old soiled leather, old stale smell?”

149. “Imagine if people decided at birth never ever to throw away any of the shoes they wore over the whole course of a life, and had a special cupboard where they kept all these old shoes they’d walked about the world in. What would there be in such a shoe museum, when you opened its doors? Row upon row, perfectly preserved, the exact shapes we took at certain points in our lives? Or row upon row, rack upon rack, of nothing but old soiled leather, old stale smell?”

Ali Smith Quote: “When pre-planned theatre is replacing politics, she said, and we’re propelled into shock mode, trained to wait for whatever the next shock will be, served up shock on a 24 hour newsfeed like we’re infants living from nipple to sleep to nipple to sleep.”

150. “When pre-planned theatre is replacing politics, she said, and we’re propelled into shock mode, trained to wait for whatever the next shock will be, served up shock on a 24 hour newsfeed like we’re infants living from nipple to sleep to nipple to sleep.”

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