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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
Alexander McCall Smith
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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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Alexander Sandy McCall Smith
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I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
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I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.
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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.
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I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.
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There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
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When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.
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It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.
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Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
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If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.
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There is room in history for all of us.
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I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
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I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.
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Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
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