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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!
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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Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
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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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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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There is plenty of work for love to do.
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[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.
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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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The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.
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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
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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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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
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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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We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.
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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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Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
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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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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.
Alexander McCall Smith
Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
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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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If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
Alexander McCall Smith
