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I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.
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Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.
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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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At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.
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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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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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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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I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.
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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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If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
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I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.
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I am capable of being idle.
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New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
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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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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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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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There is plenty of work for love to do.
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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
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Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
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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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