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Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
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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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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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All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
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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 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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There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.
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Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.
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I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.
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