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If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!
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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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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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
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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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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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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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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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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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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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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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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
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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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The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.
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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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