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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

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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Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
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Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
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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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If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
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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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It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
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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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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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[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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There is plenty of work for love to do.
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It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.
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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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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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I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.
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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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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
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I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.
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