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I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

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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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
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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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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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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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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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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
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I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.
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I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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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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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
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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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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 see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
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One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
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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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