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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

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
Haughty
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Edinburgh

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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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It would be wonderful to have a guru it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
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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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Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
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That of all people, it should be him that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.
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Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.
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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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Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
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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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There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
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I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.
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There is plenty of work for love to do.
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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
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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 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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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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There is room in history for all of us.
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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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To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
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