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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

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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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Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.
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We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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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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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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At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.
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Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.
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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'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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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
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There is room in history for all of us.
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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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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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To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
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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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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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