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Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Corset Great Like Move Space Them Words You

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I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Along Brother End Family Games Growing Growing Up Me Myself Next Older Playing Playing Games Remember Seven Tail Than Up Years I Remember

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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 a form, but they're also a total joy.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Against Also Brevity Connected Consume Faster Form How Joy Know Mortality Short Short Stories Short Story Stories Story Total Tough Up You

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In the end, will truth matter? Of course truth will matter. Truth isn't relative. But there's going to be a great sacrifice on the way to getting truth to matter to us again, to finding out why it does, and God knows what shape that sacrifice will take.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Again Course Does End Finding Getting God Going Great In The End Knows Matter Out Relative Sacrifice Shape Take Truth Us Way Why Will

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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.

~Ali Smith

Topics: About After Art Before Beings Come Connected Encounter Exist Fixed Know Lived Meet Moment Opens Past People Present Rather Same Something Time Us Who Will Work

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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Any Attractive Between Day Difference Each Exciting Give Give Me Indifference Interesting Know Makes Me Most Other Over Problematic Us Vital

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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

~Ali Smith

Topics: Actually Carve Could Never She Tombstone Want Wanted You

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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

Topics: Attempt Connect Connected Connection Engage Even Finished Happens Infinitely Seem Separate Soon Things Which Will You

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How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

~Ali Smith

Topics: Between Black-And-White Bowie Could David David Bowie Difference Felt Footage How Life Mars Pops Second Second World War Singing Top War World World War Years

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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Anything Away Dust Even Gone Know Miles Never Running Running Away Said See Trust Up Woke Would Writer You

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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