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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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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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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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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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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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I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
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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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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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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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There is room in history for all of us.
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[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.
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Everybody has friends they dislike people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.
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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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There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.
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We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
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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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I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
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Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
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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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My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
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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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