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Love and the imagination are connected.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Connected Imagination Love

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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

Topics: About Back Circles Clever Country Covered Creatures English Forests Get Great Homes How Inner Me Meant Myriad Old Provide Sky Started Tops Trees Word

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I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Awake Bed Close Dark Hours Lie Night Read Stand Thinking Too

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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

Topics: Ask Change Construct Questions Read Suggest Ways World You

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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

Topics: Art Being Beyond Coming Going Human Human Being Imagination Opening Ourselves Prime Product Together Ways World

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What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

~Ali Smith

Topics: Any Art Bit Let Us Little Little Bit Objectivity Point See Us Where

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I have the feeling that all stories travel with an understory.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Feeling Stories Travel

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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

Topics: Because Beings Book Exciting Fall Happening Human Human Beings Interesting Language Love Something Us Way Works You I Love

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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?

~Ali Smith

Topics: Afford Denying Doing Drastically Education How Making Open Pay People Right Something Supposed World You

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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.

~Ali Smith

Topics: Alive Brilliant Could Feminist Full How Interesting Nature Women World You

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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