"I've also long since realized that the way……" — Alexander McCall Smith
"I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds."
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83 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith has 83 quotes on this site.
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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never…
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another,…
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just…
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the…
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to…
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all…
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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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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was…
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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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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others…
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