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I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
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's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.
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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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There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
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If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!
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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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We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
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One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
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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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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.
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There is room in history for all of us.
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But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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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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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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International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
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