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We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
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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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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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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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As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.
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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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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
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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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Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.
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Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
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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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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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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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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
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But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.
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I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.
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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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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
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Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.
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Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.
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