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Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.
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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Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
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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.
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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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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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And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.
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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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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.
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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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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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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.
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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
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The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.
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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
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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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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
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