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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.
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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Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.
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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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Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?
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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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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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I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.
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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'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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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
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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 just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
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At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.
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