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I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

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Ali Smith
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Playwright
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Vesuvius
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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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Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
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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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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
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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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Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.
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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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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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The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
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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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