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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Author
Journalist
Playwright
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Fickle
Fashionable
Published
Gay
Fashion

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The proper word for me, Robin Goodman says, is me.
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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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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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And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to.
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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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We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
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Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
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The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
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Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.
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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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A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
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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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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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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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All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
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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 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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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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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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