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The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.
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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If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.
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Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.
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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 just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
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Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?
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There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
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I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
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Dogs are in on our human silliness lions are not.
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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
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I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.
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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
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My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
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