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William McIlvanney quotes: I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is.

I don't like questions. They invent the answers. The real answers are discovered, before you even know what the question is.

William McIlvanney quotes: There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

William McIlvanney quotes: Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

William McIlvanney quotes: Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

William McIlvanney quotes: Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

William McIlvanney quotes: That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.