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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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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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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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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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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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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
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She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.
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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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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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Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
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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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Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.
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