"It is not enough just to identify a……" — Alexander McCall Smith
"It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted."
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83 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup…
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the…
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