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Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it
— Alexander McCall Smith
It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death. The
— Dinah McCall
A society that undermined its teachers and their authority only dug away at its own sure foundations.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.
— Kevin McCall
Simple questionsand simple answers
were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes. — Alexander McCall Smith
And the pomegranates,/like memories, are bittersweet/
as we huddle together,/
remembering just how good/
life used to be — Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It's so difficult to sustain a fatwa,' said Domenica. 'One has to be so enthusiastic. I'm not sure if I could find the moral energy myself.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It was easy to make a difference to other people's lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.
— Alexander McCall Smith
that weddings are far more than marriage ceremonies; we know that they are occasions for family stock-taking and catharsis; that
— Alexander McCall Smith
He agreed with David Hockney that an artist really had to be able to draw before anything else could be achieved.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?
— Alexander McCall Smith
Time, she felt, made quite enough claims on us, without our conniving in its relentless tyranny.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Trust your nose, but make sure it's pointing in the right direction.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to - or you ignored at your peril.
— Alexander McCall Smith
A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a jolly good cry And always remember, the longer you live, the sooner you jolly well die.
— Alexander McCall Smith
There were times when life's problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Leave them," said Isabel. "Jamie can iron them himself. It's very therapeutic for men to iron. Therapeutic for women, that is.
— Alexander McCall Smith
the finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And
— Alexander McCall Smith
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished by their dislike.
— Alexander McCall Smith
A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.
— Nathan McCall
You say that you lost your child. You know how I feel then. You know that, don't you? It's a sadness that never goes away.
— Alexander McCall Smith
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
— Alexander McCall Smith
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people.
— Alexander McCall Smith
But some of us cannot see love, she said to herself, even when it is there, right before us, asking us to invite it in.
— Alexander McCall Smith
We are very keen to disapprove.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.
— Alexander McCall Smith
That was the marvelous thing about going back to one's roots; there was no need for explanation.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I have the luxury, I suppose, of being self-employed. But I know what it's like to apply for jobs.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes.
— Alexander McCall Smith
We change the earth and our changes may only be temporary; yet the signs of what we have done may persist, as these mounds did.
— Alexander McCall Smith
You haven't offended me at all. You've made me think. That's all.
— Alexander McCall Smith
You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe.
— Alexander McCall Smith
One of the drawbacks to being a philosopher was that you became aware of what you should not do, and
— Alexander McCall Smith
Believe me, there's nothing more brittle than human beauty. Encounter it. Savour it, by all means. Then watch how it turns to dust.
— Alexander McCall Smith
But who doesn't have a lot of unread books? It's nice, though, to know they are there.
— Alexander McCall Smith
She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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
The size of one's house might bear a relationship to the size of one's opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one's real worth.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Sometimes it's best to take things down and start all over again. It's the way of the world.
— Guadalupe Garcia McCall
There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.
— Alexander McCall Smith
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
— Alexander McCall Smith
That's the way things are, don't you think? It's human nature. We do things for people we know. Everybody does that.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
— Alexander McCall Smith
All of us had a view from somewhere
— Alexander McCall Smith
There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The weakest would be put out of service rather than be allowed to compromise the whole system.
— Frances McCall Rosenbluth
The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The winds must come from somewhere when they blow ... There must be reasons why the leaves decay.(From Auden's If I Could Tell You — Alexander McCall Smith
It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The world could be standing still, and we'd all be just as dizzy.
— Guadalupe Garcia McCall
I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without
— Alexander McCall Smith
An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.
— Nathan McCall
Writing fiction, I really just sit there and it just comes.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.
— Alexander McCall Smith
If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be just too great.
— Alexander McCall Smith
To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
— Alexander McCall Smith
People don't talk about mercy very much these days - it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary
— Alexander McCall Smith
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
— Alexander McCall Smith
You can't have a cohesive society without a shared culture.
— Alexander McCall Smith
This 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
It was a pink sort of smell- a smell that seemed to get bigger as you smelled it and then burst, just like the popping of a bubble
— Alexander McCall Smith
You can't deceive your own mother. That's the one person, the only one, to whom you will always be transparent.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Portraiture has its risks, and I suppose a dissident Free Presbyterian fatwa is one of them.
— Alexander McCall Smith
DOING THE DONKEY WORK
— Alexander McCall Smith
Manfred's interventions, he thought, had all the characteristics of radio jamming, designed to stop anybody else talking.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has placed us.
— Alexander McCall Smith
This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.
— Tom McCall
Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie
— Alexander McCall Smith
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
— Alexander McCall Smith
A nudist? In Edinburgh? Does he realise what parallel we're on?
— Alexander McCall Smith
... the world was a vale of tears - it always had been.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Being Mexican ... means being there for each other. It's togetherness, like a familia. We should be helping one another, cheering our friends on.
— Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
— Alexander McCall Smith
