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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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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International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
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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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Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.
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I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
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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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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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Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
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There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
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It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
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Dogs are in on our human silliness lions are not.
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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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I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
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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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