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

201. “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.”

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

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

203. “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.”

204. “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: “Crying came out of her like weather.”

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

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.”

206. “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: “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.”

207. “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.”

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “I suppose the fact that we’re all a lot more accustomed to blatancy these days means that blatancy itself has to get even more blatant, her mother says.”

210. “I suppose the fact that we’re all a lot more accustomed to blatancy these days means that blatancy itself has to get even more blatant, her mother says.”

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

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

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.”

212. “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.”

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

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “You can’t stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.”

215. “You can’t stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.”

Ali Smith Quote: “I can remember once sitting opposite my brother and feeling so much love for him that it was almost as though I was knitted to him.”

216. “I can remember once sitting opposite my brother and feeling so much love for him that it was almost as though I was knitted to him.”

Ali Smith Quote: “THERE was once a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house the people who were giving the dinner party.”

217. “THERE was once a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house the people who were giving the dinner party.”

Ali Smith Quote: “And then what happened next, well, it happened next, and history, that other word for irony, went its own foul witty way, sang its own foul witty ditty, and the girl was the one who died young in this story.”

218. “And then what happened next, well, it happened next, and history, that other word for irony, went its own foul witty way, sang its own foul witty ditty, and the girl was the one who died young in this story.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Anyone who gives wings to another’s shoulders, and then along the way gradually spreads out a hidden net, extinguishes completely the ardent charity enkindled by love precisely where it most desires to burn.”

219. “Anyone who gives wings to another’s shoulders, and then along the way gradually spreads out a hidden net, extinguishes completely the ardent charity enkindled by love precisely where it most desires to burn.”

Ali Smith Quote: “One might imagine it’d be unpleasant, being sealed inside a tree. One might imagine, ah, pining. But the scent lightens despair. It’s perhaps a little like wearing a coat of armour except much nicer, because the armour is made of a substance through which the years themselves, formative, have run.”

220. “One might imagine it’d be unpleasant, being sealed inside a tree. One might imagine, ah, pining. But the scent lightens despair. It’s perhaps a little like wearing a coat of armour except much nicer, because the armour is made of a substance through which the years themselves, formative, have run.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Life? was what you worked to catch, the intense happiness of an object slightly set apart from you.”

221. “Life? was what you worked to catch, the intense happiness of an object slightly set apart from you.”

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.”

222. “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: “Hello Mr. Gluck, she’ll say if he does. Sorry I’m late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.”

223. “Hello Mr. Gluck, she’ll say if he does. Sorry I’m late. I was having my face measured and rejected for being the wrong specification.”

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.”

224. “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.”

225. “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.”

226. “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?”

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

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

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

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.”

229. “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.”

230. “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: “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.”

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

232. “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 –.”

233. “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: “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.”

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

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

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.”

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

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

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.”

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

239. “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: “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.”

240. “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: “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.”

241. “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.”

242. “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.”

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

Ali Smith Quote: “I hear them. But am I going to let it stop me reading?”

244. “I hear them. But am I going to let it stop me reading?”

Ali Smith Quote: “As he said it Mark, belted in in the back seat, had watched the holy water glint inside the plastic bubble next to the Virgin Mary and had wondered if the holy water was selective too, and if that’s what God was these days, and whether everybody now simply had a private god who sanctioned his or her own choices.”

245. “As he said it Mark, belted in in the back seat, had watched the holy water glint inside the plastic bubble next to the Virgin Mary and had wondered if the holy water was selective too, and if that’s what God was these days, and whether everybody now simply had a private god who sanctioned his or her own choices.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The new house is really big, so big that you can go from bedroom to kitchen to bathroom and there are still other places to go in it.”

246. “The new house is really big, so big that you can go from bedroom to kitchen to bathroom and there are still other places to go in it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Well, that’s one reading of it, Elisabeth says. My own preferred reading is: free spirit arrives on earth equipped with the skill and the vision capable of blasting the tragic stuff that happens to us all into space, where it dissolves away to nothing whenever you pay any attention to the lifeforce in her pictures.”

247. “Well, that’s one reading of it, Elisabeth says. My own preferred reading is: free spirit arrives on earth equipped with the skill and the vision capable of blasting the tragic stuff that happens to us all into space, where it dissolves away to nothing whenever you pay any attention to the lifeforce in her pictures.”

Ali Smith Quote: “The man creases up. It seems he was joking; his shoulders go up and down but no sound comes out of him. It’s like laughter, but also like a parody of laughter, and simultaneously a bit like he’s having an asthma attack. Maybe you’re not allowed to laugh out loud behind the counter of the main Post Office.”

248. “The man creases up. It seems he was joking; his shoulders go up and down but no sound comes out of him. It’s like laughter, but also like a parody of laughter, and simultaneously a bit like he’s having an asthma attack. Maybe you’re not allowed to laugh out loud behind the counter of the main Post Office.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Why should we imagine that gender matters here? the tutor said. That’s actually my question too, Elisabeth said.”

249. “Why should we imagine that gender matters here? the tutor said. That’s actually my question too, Elisabeth said.”

Ali Smith Quote: “She unfolds the piece of paper in her hands and she reads again the story written on it.”

250. “She unfolds the piece of paper in her hands and she reads again the story written on it.”

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