Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 12:23PM
Drew Wolfe

Ali Smith

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

She likes to read, she reads all the time, and she prefers to be reading several things at once, she says it gives endless perspective and dimension.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.

Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we’d never sleep ever again.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.


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