Ali Smith Quotes

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• The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff…
• Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.
• Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn’t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes…
• I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
• It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force,…
• Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as…
• Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which…
• Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.
• Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
• I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
• The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
• Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
• All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
• It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
• Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
• All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to…
• Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon…
• A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
• Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
• I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

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