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Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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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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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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Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
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There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.
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I am capable of being idle.
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Each of us is born into our own mysteries but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!
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I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
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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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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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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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Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
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I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.
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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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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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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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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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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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There is plenty of work for love to do.
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I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.
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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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