Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?
Ali Smith, Autumn.
“Brave old world.”
“All across the country, people felt it was the wrong thing. All across the country, people felt it was the right thing. All across the country, people felt they'd really lost. All across the countr...”
“Words are themselves organisms, ...”
“This isnt fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.”
“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.”
“But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.”
“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”