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> [Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/four-experts-had-an-appointment-with-an-ordinary-man-they-needed-him/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

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## More by William McIlvanney

> [Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/who-thinks-the-law-has-anything-to-do-with-justice-it-s-what-we-have/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [“Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming of age,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/perhaps-it-was-just-that-born-in-scotland-you-were-hanselled-with/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [“Somewhere in all the bright assurances he was lost in a private darkness, led on by a recurrent dream of more than he was.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/somewhere-in-all-the-bright-assurances-he-was-lost-in-a-private/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/good-lies-need-a-leavening-of-truth-to-make-them-palatable/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/writing-is-a-way-of-sharing-our-humanity/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/that-would-have-been-a-nice-place-inside-an-idea-but-it-wasn-t-a/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/just-as-the-apparent-openness-of-rectitude-will-have-its-hidden/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/four-experts-had-an-appointment-with-an-ordinary-man-they-needed-him/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

> [There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-mcilvanney/there-is-a-kind-of-laughter-people-laugh-at-public-events-as-if-a/)

[William McIlvanney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-mcilvanney/)

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