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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.
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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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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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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As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
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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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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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Small things may be important to us to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
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As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
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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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I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
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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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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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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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Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
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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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I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
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