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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
Ali Smith
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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, I'm a writer, it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
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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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All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
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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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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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The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
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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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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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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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