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> [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.](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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## 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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