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Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

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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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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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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
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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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