Ali Smith Quotes

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

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Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.

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He was the most beautiful boy I had ever seen in my life. But he really looked like a girl. She was the most beautiful boy I’d ever seen in my life.

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The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

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No art has ever really changed anything.

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It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

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Everybody turns to look at him. It is quite frightening.

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