“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”
― Ali Smith, quote from Hotel World
“We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”
― Ali Smith, quote from Hotel World
“remember you must live.
remember you most love.
remainder you mist leaf.”
― Ali Smith, quote from Hotel World
“Looking in the mirror suddenly she thinks that we all know our dates of birth but that every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”
― Ali Smith, quote from Hotel World
“Jei žinai, kad jau pasimetei, tai reiškia, kad tikriausiai netrukus nepasimesi. Teisingai?”
― Ali Smith, quote from Hotel World
Ali Smith
Born place: in Inverness, Scotland
Born date August 24, 1962
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“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
― Jeanette Winterson, quote from Lighthousekeeping
“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Dance of Death
“The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.”
― Penelope Lively, quote from Moon Tiger
“Huddled in her mink in the Kansas City airport, she had a vision of women writing about sex as openly as male writers, but quite, quite differently. Some women would treat sex much as men did,as conquest, as adventure--in a way as McCarthy had. Other women would treat female sexuality far less romantically then men who did not consider themselves romantics, like Hemingway, were wont to. The earth would not move, no, there would be more biology and less theatrics. Women had less ego involvement in sex than men did, but far more at stake economically.”
― Marge Piercy, quote from Gone to Soldiers
“Compartieron una alegre relación y no la llamaron amor.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Of Love and Shadows
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