“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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