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I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
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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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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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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Small things may be important to us to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
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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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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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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
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None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.
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The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.
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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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I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.
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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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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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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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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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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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