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Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

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 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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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
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The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved that is such a miracle, they feel such a miracle.
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As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.
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Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!
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I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.
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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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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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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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Small things may be important to us to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
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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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Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.
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Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
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But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.
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At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.
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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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We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.
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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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There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
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