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Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
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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It is not enough just to identify a problem there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.
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I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.
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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
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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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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
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The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.
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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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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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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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Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
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Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.
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Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
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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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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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I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
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Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.
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I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
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It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
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I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.
Alexander McCall Smith
When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.
Alexander McCall Smith
