"We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once."

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Source : "Ali Smith". Book by Ali Smith, therumpus.net. 2012.

Ali Smith

#Believe Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.”
“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ...”
“Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.”

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“I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.”

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“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.”
“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.”
“Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.”
“All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.”

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