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Ali Smith CBE FRSL (born 24 August 1962) is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry has described her as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting".

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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

Love, Mist, Remainder, Remember, Remember You, Remembers You

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.

Autumn, Done, Returned, Summer, Sunday

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.

Brave, High, Nature, Rivers, Rope, Telling

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Filled, Goodness, Mosaically, Shattered, Shocking

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

Clothes, Important, Long, Thought, Time

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.

Blessed, Good, Good Friend, Read, Two, Way

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.

Important, Needs, Point, Round, Wed, World

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

Block, Blocks, Everything, Exercise, Growing Stronger, Literature

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

Bought, Get Better, Jobs, Publishers, Replied, Stories

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

Fashion, Fashionable, Fickle, Gay

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Fraction, Fractions, Happy, Realize, Realizing, Too Late

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Hard, Knows, Said, Things

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

Father, Ireland, Mother, Nottinghamshire, Somewhere Else

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.

Anywhere, Huge, Known, Names, Rome, Stars

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

Looked, Top, Vesuvius

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

Art, Happens, Nothing, Way

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

Art, Come, Comforted

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

Bacterial, Environmental, Forming, Growing, Stops, Toes

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Histories, Important, Know, Knows, Stories, Things

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.

Air, Forgotten, Shifting, Smell, Tonight

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