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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.”

251. “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.”

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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.”

252. “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

Ali Smith Quote: “Certain white people in particular can look right through young people and also black and mixed race people like we aren’t here.”

253. “Certain white people in particular can look right through young people and also black and mixed race people like we aren’t here.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “I personally shall be giving her the benefits of the doubt, Elisabeth said. Now you’re ready, Daniel said. Ready for what? Elisabeth said. Ready to bagatelle it as it is, Daniel said.”

254. “I personally shall be giving her the benefits of the doubt, Elisabeth said. Now you’re ready, Daniel said. Ready for what? Elisabeth said. Ready to bagatelle it as it is, Daniel said.”

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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.”

255. “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.”

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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.”

256. “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.”

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

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

— Ali Smith

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

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

— Ali Smith

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

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

— Ali Smith

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.”

260. “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.”

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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.”

261. “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

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

262. “The fact is, imagine.”

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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.”

263. “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

Ali Smith Quote: “Eras end, Paulina said. I’m Romanian. I know. They have to. So that new eras can begin.”

264. “Eras end, Paulina said. I’m Romanian. I know. They have to. So that new eras can begin.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “She thinks about the students she taught who graduate this week to all that debt, and now to a future in the past.”

265. “She thinks about the students she taught who graduate this week to all that debt, and now to a future in the past.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility.”

266. “Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “Lise was lying in bed. That was what she was doing. There was something she had to write down. She was waiting to remember it. Thoughts were slowly unearthing in her brain, like turf being turned up by someone she could make out only on the distant horizon, on the edge of a waiting field, a person made so small by distance and so slowed with age or weariness that he or she could hardly wield the spade.”

267. “Lise was lying in bed. That was what she was doing. There was something she had to write down. She was waiting to remember it. Thoughts were slowly unearthing in her brain, like turf being turned up by someone she could make out only on the distant horizon, on the edge of a waiting field, a person made so small by distance and so slowed with age or weariness that he or she could hardly wield the spade.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “We can’t solve it. But we can still salve it.”

268. “We can’t solve it. But we can still salve it.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “It was now free of obviousness.”

269. “It was now free of obviousness.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “She is reading whatever it is very assiduously.”

270. “She is reading whatever it is very assiduously.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “Brave old world.”

271. “Brave old world.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “The vintage cars fume along through England; outside the car windows the passing cow parsley is tall, beaded with rain, strong, green. It is incidental. This incidentality is, Elisabeth finds herself thinking, a profound statement. The cow parsley has a language of its own, one that nobody on the programme or making the programme knows or notices is being spoken.”

272. “The vintage cars fume along through England; outside the car windows the passing cow parsley is tall, beaded with rain, strong, green. It is incidental. This incidentality is, Elisabeth finds herself thinking, a profound statement. The cow parsley has a language of its own, one that nobody on the programme or making the programme knows or notices is being spoken.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “How did Dostoevsky know, she interrupted me, about that extraordinary vindictiveness, that relish for bitter laughter that comes over women in pain?”

273. “How did Dostoevsky know, she interrupted me, about that extraordinary vindictiveness, that relish for bitter laughter that comes over women in pain?”

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Ali Smith Quote: “Seems the self you get left with on the shore, in the end, is the self that you were when you went.”

274. “Seems the self you get left with on the shore, in the end, is the self that you were when you went.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “They’re called rollerblades, she said. Rollerblades, Daniel said. Right. Well? And you can’t rollerblade on grass, she said. Can’t you? Daniel said. How very disappointing truth is sometimes. Can’t we try? There’d be no point, she said. Can’t we try anyway? he said. We might disprove the general consensus. Okay, Elisabeth said.”

275. “They’re called rollerblades, she said. Rollerblades, Daniel said. Right. Well? And you can’t rollerblade on grass, she said. Can’t you? Daniel said. How very disappointing truth is sometimes. Can’t we try? There’d be no point, she said. Can’t we try anyway? he said. We might disprove the general consensus. Okay, Elisabeth said.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “Lise was lying in bed. She was falling. There.”

276. “Lise was lying in bed. She was falling. There.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “It was always exciting to me the number of things a single word could mean.”

277. “It was always exciting to me the number of things a single word could mean.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “Everything means something quite other now.”

278. “Everything means something quite other now.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “Elisabeth is faintly perturbed. She realizes this is because she likes to imagine her mother knows nothing much about anything.”

279. “Elisabeth is faintly perturbed. She realizes this is because she likes to imagine her mother knows nothing much about anything.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “Invisible links like these were running between all of the people in the room that day, like they always are, like thin strands of light you couldn’t see but you knew were there regardless.”

280. “Invisible links like these were running between all of the people in the room that day, like they always are, like thin strands of light you couldn’t see but you knew were there regardless.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “I like the idea of blue and pink together, Elisabeth said.”

281. “I like the idea of blue and pink together, Elisabeth said.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s as if that map they gave us is nothing to do with the actual experience of being here, she said.”

282. “It’s as if that map they gave us is nothing to do with the actual experience of being here, she said.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “After this painting they look flat and old-fashioned, as if they’re stale dramas and pretending to be real. This one at least admits the whole thing’s a performance. 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.”

283. “After this painting they look flat and old-fashioned, as if they’re stale dramas and pretending to be real. This one at least admits the whole thing’s a performance. 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

Ali Smith Quote: “The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoarding for what they are knows it.”

284. “The surface of things is a lie, and everybody who sees the hoarding for what they are knows it.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “Galleries are not much like life. They are such clean places, generally.”

285. “Galleries are not much like life. They are such clean places, generally.”

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

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

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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.”

287. “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

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.”

288. “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

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.”

289. “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.”

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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.”

290. “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

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

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

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

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

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Ali Smith Quote: “The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.”

293. “The longer Sacha lives the more insane she realizes the species she belongs to is.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “It’s what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”

294. “It’s what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “We need both luck and justice to get to live the life we’re meant for, she says.”

295. “We need both luck and justice to get to live the life we’re meant for, she says.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “She stops to make a note on her phone: abandon and presence, she writes. It’s the first time she’s felt like herself for quite some time.”

296. “She stops to make a note on her phone: abandon and presence, she writes. It’s the first time she’s felt like herself for quite some time.”

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Ali Smith Quote: “And now for our entertainment when we want humiliation we’ve got reality TV instead, Iris says. And soon instead of reality TV we’ll have the President of the United States.”

297. “And now for our entertainment when we want humiliation we’ve got reality TV instead, Iris says. And soon instead of reality TV we’ll have the President of the United States.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “I don’t care what language the time passes in, the girl says. So long as it passes.”

298. “I don’t care what language the time passes in, the girl says. So long as it passes.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “It’s on my head, Elisabeth says. That’s where it grows. And my face is also attached to my head.”

299. “It’s on my head, Elisabeth says. That’s where it grows. And my face is also attached to my head.”

— Ali Smith

Ali Smith Quote: “She came right up to the side of the building as if she were coming round its corner and simply sort of reading the sign because that’s what she was, a girl reading the world.”

300. “She came right up to the side of the building as if she were coming round its corner and simply sort of reading the sign because that’s what she was, a girl reading the world.”

— Ali Smith

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