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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
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Everything has been something before (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
It’s a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I’m very interested in tea. I wouldn’t mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
It’s because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That’s the reason. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They’ve made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
There was nothing more unattractive than narcissism, she thought: nothing could transform beauty into a cloying, unattractive quality than that self-conscious appreciation of self. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I’m not nihilistic (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
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 (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It’s the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
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 (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
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 (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. and of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that’s how it should be (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
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. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Emma was happy. She realized that happiness is something that springs from the generous treatment of others, and that until one makes that connection, happiness may prove elusive. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Baboons take a bit of getting to know but, apparently, once you break the ice, so to speak, they are complex and interesting creatures with elaborate societies. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
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. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
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. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It’s all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
I’ve certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I’ve never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture. (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)
Painters aren’t expected to paint bleak pictures, are they? (Alexander McCall Smith Quotes)