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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.

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 don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
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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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Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.
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If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.
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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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That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
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Dogs are in on our human silliness lions are not.
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Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.
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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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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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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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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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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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Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both.
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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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