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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 as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage. Ali Smith
You Will Finished Seem Attempt Soon Infinitely Happens Which Separate Engage Connect Connected Connection Even Things
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. Ali Smith
Music Book Reading Believe Once Tend Never Never Expect Piece Read Understand Expect Listen Just After
Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay. Ali Smith
Fashion Gay Fickle Because Fashionable Published
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book. Ali Smith
Life Good Book Argument Proof Rather Like Read Always Dialogue Go Much
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 the life in language - on all its levels. Ali Smith
Life Book Language First Final Alive Writer Open Reader Line Page Levels Need
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.' Ali Smith
Work Man Try Think Would About Rust Feel Like Call Wizard Wizard Of Oz Labels Tin Oz Modernist
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery. Ali Smith
Time Thoughts First Past Speed Back Our Bent Characters Paragraph Along Know Well First Time Still End Rolling Flash Century Tweet Search Traveling Now Kept
Love and the imagination are connected. Ali Smith
Love Imagination Connected
Trees are great. Don't get me started about how clever they are, how oxygen-generous, how time-formed in inner cyclic circles, how they provide homes for myriad creatures, how - back when this country was covered in forests - the word for sky was an Old English word that meant 'tops of trees.' Ali Smith
Great Me Old Word Sky Country Clever Trees Back Circles Tops About Myriad How Covered Provide Forests Get Meant English Creatures Homes Inner Started
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct. Ali Smith
You Change World Ways Construct Read Questions Ask Suggest
Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together. Ali Smith
Art Together Human Being World Imagination Ways Ourselves Prime Opening Beyond Coming Going Human Being Product
I have the feeling that all stories travel with an understory. Ali Smith
Travel Feeling Stories
When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language. Ali Smith
Love You Book Language Fall Way Something Exciting Because Human Human Beings Happening Interesting Us Works Beings
What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this? Ali Smith
Education You People World Pay Drastically Something Open Supposed How Making Doing Denying Afford Right
My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women. Ali Smith
Nature You Women World Brilliant Alive Could How Feminist Interesting Full
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art. Ali Smith
Art Girl Dressed Could Renaissance Make Boy Theory Whole Now
The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against. Ali Smith
Life Work Try Down Pin Which Against Us Things
I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working. Ali Smith
Happy Long Nothing Sure Been Working
I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, 'Ach, it's my nightgown. I couldn't decide what else to wear.' Ali Smith
Beautiful Honor Party Met Else Wear Wearing Dress Given Writer She Said Pink Being Literary Decide Esteemed Internationally Her
The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory. Ali Smith
World One Thing About More Massively Quickly Selves Contradictory Than Human Human Beings Ask Us Beings Multiple Thing
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Alice James
Education Fool More More Or Less Had Am Been Wonder Whether Should Less
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Alice James
Book Reading Sense Else Everyone Everyone Else Some Superiority Gives Escape Which
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? Alice James
You Difficulty Tell About Come Fellow Does Where Dying Anything Fun
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James
Experience Doctor Sense Interview Degradation Suppose Greater Intellectual Than Any Human After Human Experience
How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Alice James
Myself Good Respect Sick Everyone Out Embody Wretched Could Hours Make How How Much Selfishness Gets Being Burst If I Could Much Should Twenty-Four
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James
Experience Doctor Sense Interview Degradation Greater Than Any Human After Human Experience Medical
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