"Do you realise that people die of boredom……" — 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..."
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83 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith
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- You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never…
- A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another,…
- But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
- The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just…
- Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to…
- Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all…
- Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
- The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup…
- It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was…
- We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the…
- Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others…
- There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
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