Ali Smith
Ali Smith
Ali Smith CBE FRSLis a Scottish writer...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
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How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
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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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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
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Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.
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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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The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.
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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
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What I know most is that the difference between us is what makes us interesting and attractive and problematic and exciting and vital to each other. Give me difference over indifference any day.