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

201. “Christmas is probably too bourgeois.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Crying came out of her like weather.”

202. “Crying came out of her like weather.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The trees are revealing their structures. There’s the catch of fire in the air. All the souls are out marauding. But there are roses, there are still roses. In the damp and the cold, on a bush that looks done, there’s a wide-open rose, still.”

203. “The trees are revealing their structures. There’s the catch of fire in the air. All the souls are out marauding. But there are roses, there are still roses. In the damp and the cold, on a bush that looks done, there’s a wide-open rose, still.”

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.”

204. “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: “It’s why he’d got off the train here: the train had pulled towards this station and there’d been something clean about the mountains, clean like swept clean. They had something about them that accepted the fact of themselves, demanded nothing. They just were.”

205. “It’s why he’d got off the train here: the train had pulled towards this station and there’d been something clean about the mountains, clean like swept clean. They had something about them that accepted the fact of themselves, demanded nothing. They just were.”

Ali Smith Quote: “So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.”

206. “So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.”

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “If people think you like them, Charlotte said, well, it can go either way. There’s a lot of powerplay in liking and being liked. Such a powerful connection, it’s a chance to make the world bigger for someone else. Or smaller. That’s always the choice we’ve got.”

208. “If people think you like them, Charlotte said, well, it can go either way. There’s a lot of powerplay in liking and being liked. Such a powerful connection, it’s a chance to make the world bigger for someone else. Or smaller. That’s always the choice we’ve got.”

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “Later that night, when she was home and falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, Elisabeth would remember seeing his eyes open, and how it was like that moment when you just happen to see the streetlights come on and it feels like you’re being given a gift, or a chance, or that you yourself’ve been singled out and chosen by the moment.”

210. “Later that night, when she was home and falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, Elisabeth would remember seeing his eyes open, and how it was like that moment when you just happen to see the streetlights come on and it feels like you’re being given a gift, or a chance, or that you yourself’ve been singled out and chosen by the moment.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I’d laughed when I’d seen Walter Benjamin’s name, because, much like my brother used to shout when we were kids in the back of the car and we were driving south, Ten points to the first person who can see the Forth Road Bridge, or my father when he was teaching me to drive, Ten points if you can hit that woman crossing the road, what you used to say when you’d make me come with you to those boring conferences was, Ten points to the first person who hears someone say the words Walter Benjamin.”

211. “I’d laughed when I’d seen Walter Benjamin’s name, because, much like my brother used to shout when we were kids in the back of the car and we were driving south, Ten points to the first person who can see the Forth Road Bridge, or my father when he was teaching me to drive, Ten points if you can hit that woman crossing the road, what you used to say when you’d make me come with you to those boring conferences was, Ten points to the first person who hears someone say the words Walter Benjamin.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s good, to be seen past, as if you’re not the only one, as if everything isn’t happening just to you. Because you’re not. And it isn’t.”

212. “It’s good, to be seen past, as if you’re not the only one, as if everything isn’t happening just to you. Because you’re not. And it isn’t.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Whatever age you are, he says. You still die young.”

213. “Whatever age you are, he says. You still die young.”

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.”

214. “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.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Even the machine has to encounter nature, not even it can escape the earth. There’s something reassuring in that.”

215. “Even the machine has to encounter nature, not even it can escape the earth. There’s something reassuring in that.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you’d faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you’d come, follow your own thread, the thread you’d left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –.”

216. “Then she told George that the story of the minotaur was one about facing what mazes you. She made it very clear that she was using the word maze, not amaze. Then, when you’d faced it, she said, the thing to do to get out of the labyrinth was to go back the way you’d come, follow your own thread, the thread you’d left behind you, and that this had a lot to do with knowing where we come from and what our roots are –.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Now that he’s up on his feet he is hungry. Can you be hungry and dead? Course you can, all those hungry ghosts eating people’s hearts and minds.”

217. “Now that he’s up on his feet he is hungry. Can you be hungry and dead? Course you can, all those hungry ghosts eating people’s hearts and minds.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Hello, he said. What you reading? Elisabeth showed him her empty hands. Does it look like I’m reading anything? she said. 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.”

218. “Hello, he said. What you reading? Elisabeth showed him her empty hands. Does it look like I’m reading anything? she said. 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: “Daniel in the gallery sees one of her hands, the one on the rail of the witness box, cover itself in little shoots and buds. The buds split open. There are leaves coming out of her fingers.”

219. “Daniel in the gallery sees one of her hands, the one on the rail of the witness box, cover itself in little shoots and buds. The buds split open. There are leaves coming out of her fingers.”

Ali Smith Quote: “This is part empathy, part thievery. Empathy, in art, is art’s part-exchange with us, its inclusivity, at once a kindness, a going beyond the self, and a pickpocketing of our responses, which is why giving and taking are bound up with the goods, with the gods, with respect, with deep-seated understanding about the complex cultural place where kindness, thievery, bartering, and gift-giving all meet, make their exchanges, and by exchange reveal real worth.”

220. “This is part empathy, part thievery. Empathy, in art, is art’s part-exchange with us, its inclusivity, at once a kindness, a going beyond the self, and a pickpocketing of our responses, which is why giving and taking are bound up with the goods, with the gods, with respect, with deep-seated understanding about the complex cultural place where kindness, thievery, bartering, and gift-giving all meet, make their exchanges, and by exchange reveal real worth.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I’m composed when it comes to compost.”

221. “I’m composed when it comes to compost.”

Ali Smith Quote: “But pure joy! He’d forgotten what it feels like, to feel. To feel even just the thought of one’s own bared self near someone else’s beauty.”

222. “But pure joy! He’d forgotten what it feels like, to feel. To feel even just the thought of one’s own bared self near someone else’s beauty.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The nights are sooner, chillier, the light a little less each time.”

223. “The nights are sooner, chillier, the light a little less each time.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The nettles say nothing. The seeds at the tops of the grass stems say nothing. The little white flowers on the tops of their stalks, she doesn’t know what they are but they’re saying their fresh nothing. The buttercups say it merrily. The gorse says it unexpectedly, a bright yellow nothing, smooth and soft and delicate against the mute green nothing of its barbs.”

224. “The nettles say nothing. The seeds at the tops of the grass stems say nothing. The little white flowers on the tops of their stalks, she doesn’t know what they are but they’re saying their fresh nothing. The buttercups say it merrily. The gorse says it unexpectedly, a bright yellow nothing, smooth and soft and delicate against the mute green nothing of its barbs.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I can make no dent in anything. I have nothing left to break.”

225. “I can make no dent in anything. I have nothing left to break.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Funny, she says leaning against an unexpected warm place in the stone on the threshold of the church and liking the feel of it on her arm. Like, how we overload summer most out of all the seasons, I mean with our expectations of it.”

226. “Funny, she says leaning against an unexpected warm place in the stone on the threshold of the church and liking the feel of it on her arm. Like, how we overload summer most out of all the seasons, I mean with our expectations of it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Here’s an old story so new that it’s still in the middle of happening, writing itself right now with no knowledge of where or how it’ll end.”

227. “Here’s an old story so new that it’s still in the middle of happening, writing itself right now with no knowledge of where or how it’ll end.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Never mind literal climate change, there’s been a whole seasonal shift. It’s like walking in a blizzard all the time just trying to get to what’s really happening beyond the noise and hype.”

228. “Never mind literal climate change, there’s been a whole seasonal shift. It’s like walking in a blizzard all the time just trying to get to what’s really happening beyond the noise and hype.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Even in the timeless zone of the average day of an unwell person invisible to the rest of the fast-moving world there was Deirdre at four o’clock.”

229. “Even in the timeless zone of the average day of an unwell person invisible to the rest of the fast-moving world there was Deirdre at four o’clock.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It feels a little dangerous, to be so close to fairy tale.”

230. “It feels a little dangerous, to be so close to fairy tale.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Regrets when you’re dead? A past when you’re dead? Is there never any escaping the junkyard of the self?”

231. “Regrets when you’re dead? A past when you’re dead? Is there never any escaping the junkyard of the self?”

Ali Smith Quote: “It was huge, the room, her mother told her, with nothing in it but thousands of old sherry glasses piled inside each other. Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility, Zoe says. One kick. Disaster. Careful where you tread.”

232. “It was huge, the room, her mother told her, with nothing in it but thousands of old sherry glasses piled inside each other. Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility, Zoe says. One kick. Disaster. Careful where you tread.”

Ali Smith Quote: “You can’t put a pin through a summer.”

233. “You can’t put a pin through a summer.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The fact is, imagine.”

234. “The fact is, imagine.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She has found by experience that she is in a world where female emancipation is a password and not a fact – she is beautiful, therefore she should not be clever.”

235. “She has found by experience that she is in a world where female emancipation is a password and not a fact – she is beautiful, therefore she should not be clever.”

Ali Smith Quote: “And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn’t here at all. Then you phoned.”

236. “And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn’t here at all. Then you phoned.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Yes, but everywhere needs some defence against people just coming in and overrunning the place with their terrorisms or their deficiencies, eh, sweetheart, Richard says. That’s right, Terence says. Got to keep all those bad refugees out. The ones looking for a better life. Couldn.”

237. “Yes, but everywhere needs some defence against people just coming in and overrunning the place with their terrorisms or their deficiencies, eh, sweetheart, Richard says. That’s right, Terence says. Got to keep all those bad refugees out. The ones looking for a better life. Couldn.”

Ali Smith Quote: “What I do when it distresses me that there’s something I can’t remember, is. Are you listening? Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying. I imagine that whatever it is I’ve forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird. What kind of bird? Elisabeth said. A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You’ll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it too tight, and I let it sleep. And that’s that.”

238. “What I do when it distresses me that there’s something I can’t remember, is. Are you listening? Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying. I imagine that whatever it is I’ve forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird. What kind of bird? Elisabeth said. A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You’ll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it too tight, and I let it sleep. And that’s that.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I’m rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.”

239. “I’m rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Real strength was a matter of sensing something alive in you bigger than just your own breathing.”

240. “Real strength was a matter of sensing something alive in you bigger than just your own breathing.”

Ali Smith Quote: “On the contrary, time and space are what lace us all up together, Hannah says. What makes us part of the larger picture. Universally speaking. The problem is, we tend to think we’re separate. But it’s a delusion.”

241. “On the contrary, time and space are what lace us all up together, Hannah says. What makes us part of the larger picture. Universally speaking. The problem is, we tend to think we’re separate. But it’s a delusion.”

Ali Smith Quote: “People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing.”

242. “People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s quite like the songwriter actually couldn’t be bothered to think of words... It will be precisely why the song sold so many copies and was such a big deal at the time. People like things not to be too meaningful.”

243. “It’s quite like the songwriter actually couldn’t be bothered to think of words... It will be precisely why the song sold so many copies and was such a big deal at the time. People like things not to be too meaningful.”

$Ali Smith Quote: “All of this information flashes through George’s head in that fraction of a second it takes to do the single swivel round towards H in her mother’s chair and say the words: It’s my mother’s study. Cool, H says.”$

244. “All of this information flashes through George’s head in that fraction of a second it takes to do the single swivel round towards H in her mother’s chair and say the words: It’s my mother’s study. Cool, H says.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Look at that. He can sew. Not something he could do while he was alive. Death. Full of surprises.”

245. “Look at that. He can sew. Not something he could do while he was alive. Death. Full of surprises.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The painter who wanted more money because he was greedy. Or the painter who wanted more money because he knew his worth.”

246. “The painter who wanted more money because he was greedy. Or the painter who wanted more money because he knew his worth.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She was so adolescent. Everything about her asked for attention, the way she walked across a room or a shop or across the forecourt of a petrol station, leaning into the air in front of her as if about to lose her balance, mutely demanding that someone – Eve, who else? – put out the flat of her hand and let Astrid push her forehead or her shoulder into it.”

247. “She was so adolescent. Everything about her asked for attention, the way she walked across a room or a shop or across the forecourt of a petrol station, leaning into the air in front of her as if about to lose her balance, mutely demanding that someone – Eve, who else? – put out the flat of her hand and let Astrid push her forehead or her shoulder into it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.”

248. “Who needs a school homework assignment to be trustworthy? Sacha said.”

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s funny to be sitting on such an uncommunal communal chair.”

249. “It’s funny to be sitting on such an uncommunal communal chair.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I penetrated to the heart of the forest, he says, sacrificed myself, and brought back – you. He.”

250. “I penetrated to the heart of the forest, he says, sacrificed myself, and brought back – you. He.”

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