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Ali Smith Quote: “Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you’d made, as if the thing you’d made became you.”

151. “Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you’d made, as if the thing you’d made became you.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what’s left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn’t live without.”

152. “Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what’s left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn’t live without.”

Ali Smith Quote: “A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.”

153. “A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It isn’t that kind of relationship,” Elisabeth says to a lover. “It isn’t even the least physical. It never has been. But it’s love. I can’t pretend it isn’t.”

154. “It isn’t that kind of relationship,” Elisabeth says to a lover. “It isn’t even the least physical. It never has been. But it’s love. I can’t pretend it isn’t.”

Ali Smith Quote: “We’re always looking for the full open leaf, the open warmth, the promise that we’ll one day soon surely be able to lie back and have summer done to us; one day soon we’ll be treated well by the world.”

155. “We’re always looking for the full open leaf, the open warmth, the promise that we’ll one day soon surely be able to lie back and have summer done to us; one day soon we’ll be treated well by the world.”

Ali Smith Quote: “So that is what history is, people and places that disappear, or are beheaded, or get damaged or nearly do, and things and places and people that get tortured and burned and so on. But this does not mean that history is not the unseen things as well.”

156. “So that is what history is, people and places that disappear, or are beheaded, or get damaged or nearly do, and things and places and people that get tortured and burned and so on. But this does not mean that history is not the unseen things as well.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But we didn’t fit, he and I. He thought it was because he was too old. He was older, and compared to the age I was I did think he was ancient. He was in his sixties then. Well, now I know that your sixties feel the same as all the other ages, and your seventies. You never stop being yourself on the inside, whatever age people think you are by looking at you from the outside.”

157. “But we didn’t fit, he and I. He thought it was because he was too old. He was older, and compared to the age I was I did think he was ancient. He was in his sixties then. Well, now I know that your sixties feel the same as all the other ages, and your seventies. You never stop being yourself on the inside, whatever age people think you are by looking at you from the outside.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Words were stories in themselves.”

158. “Words were stories in themselves.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Meanwhile, days pass.”

159. “Meanwhile, days pass.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Creativity is cultural joy because it is derivative of it, but because it aims to heal culture. Art is saturated with the unconscious acts like a compensatory dream in the individual: it tries to rebalance and address deep-rooted problems.”

160. “Creativity is cultural joy because it is derivative of it, but because it aims to heal culture. Art is saturated with the unconscious acts like a compensatory dream in the individual: it tries to rebalance and address deep-rooted problems.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.”

161. “Mark, shaken, realizes he has just made the terrible mistake of not just seeming to be but actually being sincere.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Got a light? See? Careful. I’m everything you ever dreamed.”

162. “Got a light? See? Careful. I’m everything you ever dreamed.”

Ali Smith Quote: “An idiolect. That’s what he is, a language no one else alive in the world speaks. He is the last living speaker of himself. He’s been too blithe, he’d forgotten for a whole train journey, for almost a whole day, that he himself is dead as a disappeared grammar, a graveyard scatter of phonemes and morphemes.”

163. “An idiolect. That’s what he is, a language no one else alive in the world speaks. He is the last living speaker of himself. He’s been too blithe, he’d forgotten for a whole train journey, for almost a whole day, that he himself is dead as a disappeared grammar, a graveyard scatter of phonemes and morphemes.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.”

164. “It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.”

165. “She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.”

Ali Smith Quote: “He also knows he is and will be being recorded by CCTV cameras on both sides of the station. He knows these are the kinds of cameras that don’t know anything, don’t show anything beyond surface. He knows that what they do is the stupid new way of knowing everything.”

166. “He also knows he is and will be being recorded by CCTV cameras on both sides of the station. He knows these are the kinds of cameras that don’t know anything, don’t show anything beyond surface. He knows that what they do is the stupid new way of knowing everything.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I don’t know that I believe in gods enough to ask of them. But if they exist and I might be so bold as to say, excuse me, if you’re there can you please make that sunlit summer day longer and these dark days shorter.”

167. “I don’t know that I believe in gods enough to ask of them. But if they exist and I might be so bold as to say, excuse me, if you’re there can you please make that sunlit summer day longer and these dark days shorter.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now, lost to everything but the fact of bare bones on a dark seabed.”

168. “I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now, lost to everything but the fact of bare bones on a dark seabed.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The ideal woman, a kind of faithful slave, who administers without a word of complaint and certainly no payment, who speaks only when spoken to and is a jolly good chap. But a revolution is on the way, all over the country young girls are starting and shaking and if they terrify you they mean to.”

169. “The ideal woman, a kind of faithful slave, who administers without a word of complaint and certainly no payment, who speaks only when spoken to and is a jolly good chap. But a revolution is on the way, all over the country young girls are starting and shaking and if they terrify you they mean to.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don’t know.”

170. “It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don’t know.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Once it would have been a year’s worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.”

171. “Once it would have been a year’s worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Well, truth’s like the sun. Look right at it and that’s your eyes ruined for life.”

172. “Well, truth’s like the sun. Look right at it and that’s your eyes ruined for life.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But.”

173. “Animals, Mark, have no use for nostalgia, Aunt Kenna says. It is not a tool for survival, my darling. But.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It would be good to be full of holes, she says. Then all the things you can’t express would maybe just flow out.”

174. “It would be good to be full of holes, she says. Then all the things you can’t express would maybe just flow out.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The slightness of it gestures against the odds. It is like a magic spell.”

175. “The slightness of it gestures against the odds. It is like a magic spell.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Friends are always pretty, even when they’re not.”

176. “Friends are always pretty, even when they’re not.”

Ali Smith Quote: “A child grows up saying words that the rest of the world tells the child aren’t words. But the child and everybody the child holds dear all know that the words mean, and what the words mean. Listen, that child will be equipped, from the very beginning. For everything, dark and light, heavy and light, that life will bring to that child.”

177. “A child grows up saying words that the rest of the world tells the child aren’t words. But the child and everybody the child holds dear all know that the words mean, and what the words mean. Listen, that child will be equipped, from the very beginning. For everything, dark and light, heavy and light, that life will bring to that child.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But love was terribly important. She didn’t mean romantic love. Generalized sort of love.”

178. “But love was terribly important. She didn’t mean romantic love. Generalized sort of love.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it for what it is. Beautiful dirt, grey and vintage, the grime left by life, sticking to the bony roof of a mouth and tasting of next to nothing, which is always better than nothing.”

179. “I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it for what it is. Beautiful dirt, grey and vintage, the grime left by life, sticking to the bony roof of a mouth and tasting of next to nothing, which is always better than nothing.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Stop thieving my tragedy.”

180. “Stop thieving my tragedy.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Self-deprecation is almost always distasteful, his mother says.”

181. “Self-deprecation is almost always distasteful, his mother says.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The pauses are a precise language, more a language than actual language is, Elisabeth thinks.”

182. “The pauses are a precise language, more a language than actual language is, Elisabeth thinks.”

Ali Smith Quote: “You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous.”

183. “You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous.”

Ali Smith Quote: “That’s what winter is: an exercise remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again. An exercise in adapting yourself to whatever frozen or molten state it brings you.”

184. “That’s what winter is: an exercise remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again. An exercise in adapting yourself to whatever frozen or molten state it brings you.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The English word for summer comes from Old English sumor, from the proto-indo-european root sam, meaning both one and together.”

185. “The English word for summer comes from Old English sumor, from the proto-indo-european root sam, meaning both one and together.”

Ali Smith Quote: “To be included in someone’s absence, it is an honour, and it asks quiet. It asks respect.”

186. “To be included in someone’s absence, it is an honour, and it asks quiet. It asks respect.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She knew it was supposed to happen like that, that although these photographs were a signal to the eyes about something really happening, the more she looked at them the less she felt or thought. The more pictures she saw, the less they meant something that had happened to real people and the more it became possible to pile real people up like that again anywhere you wanted and have your picture taken standing smiling behind them.”

187. “She knew it was supposed to happen like that, that although these photographs were a signal to the eyes about something really happening, the more she looked at them the less she felt or thought. The more pictures she saw, the less they meant something that had happened to real people and the more it became possible to pile real people up like that again anywhere you wanted and have your picture taken standing smiling behind them.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The act of saying I forgive you, it’s like saying you are less than me and I have the moral or superior upper hand.”

188. “The act of saying I forgive you, it’s like saying you are less than me and I have the moral or superior upper hand.”

Ali Smith Quote: “We all mine and undermine and landmine ourselves, in our own ways, in our own time, Sophia thinks.”

189. “We all mine and undermine and landmine ourselves, in our own ways, in our own time, Sophia thinks.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But that’s summer for you. Summer’s like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn’t just a merry tale. Because there’s no merry tale without darkness.”

190. “But that’s summer for you. Summer’s like walking down a road just like this one, heading towards both light and dark. Because summer isn’t just a merry tale. Because there’s no merry tale without darkness.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.”

191. “I’m tired of the news. I’m tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren’t, and deals so simplistically with what’s truly appalling.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Getting old is pathetic if you use it as an excuse for no longer being responsible.”

192. “Getting old is pathetic if you use it as an excuse for no longer being responsible.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It was kindly meant. But kindly meant was complicated. There were lines you had to draw. There were correct responses. On the one hand there was laugh and say something funny back, on the other there was how dare you talk to me like that. It depended.”

193. “It was kindly meant. But kindly meant was complicated. There were lines you had to draw. There were correct responses. On the one hand there was laugh and say something funny back, on the other there was how dare you talk to me like that. It depended.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Christmas is probably too bourgeois.”

194. “Christmas is probably too bourgeois.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I love your kiss. Everything’s sorted, and obvious, and understood, and civilised, your kiss says. It’s a shut-eye lie, I know it is, because the music I didn’t know before I knew you makes me open my eyes in a place of no sentimentality, where light itself is a kind of shadow, where everything is fragment-slanted.”

195. “I love your kiss. Everything’s sorted, and obvious, and understood, and civilised, your kiss says. It’s a shut-eye lie, I know it is, because the music I didn’t know before I knew you makes me open my eyes in a place of no sentimentality, where light itself is a kind of shadow, where everything is fragment-slanted.”

Ali Smith Quote: “There’s ways to survive these times, Doubleclick, and I think one way is the shape the telling takes.”

196. “There’s ways to survive these times, Doubleclick, and I think one way is the shape the telling takes.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The world is full of people looking for meaning in the shape of a bird not native to this country turning up in this country after all.”

197. “The world is full of people looking for meaning in the shape of a bird not native to this country turning up in this country after all.”

Ali Smith Quote: “A missed chance, a ruined life.”

198. “A missed chance, a ruined life.”

Ali Smith Quote: “H has moved to a town in Denmark that sounds like someone Scottish saying the word whorehouse.”

199. “H has moved to a town in Denmark that sounds like someone Scottish saying the word whorehouse.”

Ali Smith Quote: “And it suggests this truth about the place where aesthetic form meets the human mind. For even if we were to find ourselves homeless, in a strange land, with nothing of ourselves left-say we lost everything-we’d still have another kind of home, in aesthetic form itself, in the familiarity, the unchanging assurance that a known rhythm, a recognised line, the familiar shape of a story, a tune, a line or phrase or sentence gives us every time, even long after we’ve forgotten we even know it.”

200. “And it suggests this truth about the place where aesthetic form meets the human mind. For even if we were to find ourselves homeless, in a strange land, with nothing of ourselves left-say we lost everything-we’d still have another kind of home, in aesthetic form itself, in the familiarity, the unchanging assurance that a known rhythm, a recognised line, the familiar shape of a story, a tune, a line or phrase or sentence gives us every time, even long after we’ve forgotten we even know it.”

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