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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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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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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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