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Dogs are in on our human silliness lions are not.

Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Alexander Sandy McCall Smith
Lions
Dogs
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Human
Humans
Silliness

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The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved that is such a miracle, they feel such a miracle.
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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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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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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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I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!
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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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Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
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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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A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
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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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International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
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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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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
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We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
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Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
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I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.
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My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
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