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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
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Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
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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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None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.
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I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.
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I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.
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We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.
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Small things may be important to us to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
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The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
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I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
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If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
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