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I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
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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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Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
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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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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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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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Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
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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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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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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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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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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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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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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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Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
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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.
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