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There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
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All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
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I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.
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The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
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And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.
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All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
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I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
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Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
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[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.
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Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
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It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.
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We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
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It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
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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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