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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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I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.
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To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.
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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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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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My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.
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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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Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
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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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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
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Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once
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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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