Scottish - Writer | 1962 -
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
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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?
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My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.
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When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.
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The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.
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There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.
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I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.
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I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.
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I'm happy to have nothing, so long as I'm sure I've been working.
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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.'
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I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'
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Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
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