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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.”

251. “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.”

252. “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.”

253. “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.”

254. “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.”

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

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

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.”

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

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.”

258. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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.”

261. “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.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “How adaptable human beings were without even realizing it, slipping blindly from state to state. One morning it was summer, the next you woke up and the whole year was over; one minute you were thirty, the next sixty, sixty next year quick as a wink, how fast it all was. How quickly and smoothly, yet how shockingly, when you thought about it, the seasons and the years gave way to each other.”

266. “How adaptable human beings were without even realizing it, slipping blindly from state to state. One morning it was summer, the next you woke up and the whole year was over; one minute you were thirty, the next sixty, sixty next year quick as a wink, how fast it all was. How quickly and smoothly, yet how shockingly, when you thought about it, the seasons and the years gave way to each other.”

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.”

267. “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 Quote: “Perhaps somewhere in all of this if you look there’s a proof of love.”

268. “Perhaps somewhere in all of this if you look there’s a proof of love.”

Ali Smith Quote: “He turns to go – and that’s when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it’s slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It’s a surrealist vision of hell. What’s surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.”

269. “He turns to go – and that’s when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it’s slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It’s a surrealist vision of hell. What’s surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Since Sacha watched that TV show where celebrities dress up in costumes with huge masked heads and sing a song, and a panel and an audience try to guess who’s behind the mask, it has struck Sacha that actually everyone and everything on TV is like someone wearing a mask. After you’ve seen it, you can’t not see it.”

270. “Since Sacha watched that TV show where celebrities dress up in costumes with huge masked heads and sing a song, and a panel and an audience try to guess who’s behind the mask, it has struck Sacha that actually everyone and everything on TV is like someone wearing a mask. After you’ve seen it, you can’t not see it.”

Ali Smith Quote: “All the other houses have been pulled out of the street like bad teeth.”

271. “All the other houses have been pulled out of the street like bad teeth.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Hello. This book wishes you well. It wishes you the world. It wishes you somewhere warm, safe, well-lit, thoughtful, free, wide open to everybody, where you’ll be surrounded by books and all the different possible ways of reading them. It wishes you fierceness and determination if anyone or anything threatens to take away your open access to place, space, time, thought, knowledge. It wishes you libraries – endless public libraries.”

272. “Hello. This book wishes you well. It wishes you the world. It wishes you somewhere warm, safe, well-lit, thoughtful, free, wide open to everybody, where you’ll be surrounded by books and all the different possible ways of reading them. It wishes you fierceness and determination if anyone or anything threatens to take away your open access to place, space, time, thought, knowledge. It wishes you libraries – endless public libraries.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Dishevelled genius; because genius doesn’t need to be hevelled, whatever hevelled is.”

273. “Dishevelled genius; because genius doesn’t need to be hevelled, whatever hevelled is.”

Ali Smith Quote: “You came back from the dead to watch tv? I said.”

274. “You came back from the dead to watch tv? I said.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Books. Knowledge. Years of reading. All of which means? I know stuff.”

275. “Books. Knowledge. Years of reading. All of which means? I know stuff.”

Ali Smith Quote: “And on that night, when all he’s ever known in the past couple of years started to break apart, he did not try so desperately to keep her muse. He didn’t need to. He also did not soak up in bottles of rum. Instead, he went home. He went home and painted. Because before any of this has ever happened, he was a painter.”

276. “And on that night, when all he’s ever known in the past couple of years started to break apart, he did not try so desperately to keep her muse. He didn’t need to. He also did not soak up in bottles of rum. Instead, he went home. He went home and painted. Because before any of this has ever happened, he was a painter.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “Excuse me, ladies, Hannah said. This is where I get off.”

280. “Excuse me, ladies, Hannah said. This is where I get off.”

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

281. “It was now free of obviousness.”

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

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

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.”

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

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

Ali Smith Quote: “Brave old world.”

285. “Brave old world.”

Ali Smith Quote: “Perhaps the day will come, George thought, when I will listen to my father. For now though, how can I? He’s my father.”

286. “Perhaps the day will come, George thought, when I will listen to my father. For now though, how can I? He’s my father.”

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.”

287. “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.”

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?”

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

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.”

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

Ali Smith Quote: “That’s why you need to go to collage, Daniel said. You’re using the wrong word, Elisabeth said. The word you’re using is for when you cut out pictures of things or coloured shapes and stick them on paper. I disagree, Daniel said. Collage is an institute of education where all the rules can be thrown up into the air, and size and space and time and foreground and background all become relative, and because of these skills everything you think you know gets made into something new and strange.”

290. “That’s why you need to go to collage, Daniel said. You’re using the wrong word, Elisabeth said. The word you’re using is for when you cut out pictures of things or coloured shapes and stick them on paper. I disagree, Daniel said. Collage is an institute of education where all the rules can be thrown up into the air, and size and space and time and foreground and background all become relative, and because of these skills everything you think you know gets made into something new and strange.”

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

294. “Everything means something quite other now.”

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

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

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.”

296. “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 Quote: “More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities. Bernice.”

297. “More and more, the pressing human dilemma: how to walk a clean path between obscenities. Bernice.”

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.”

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

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

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

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.”

300. “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.”

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