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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute…
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…
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 loved.
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in…
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how…
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…
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 of tea.
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved…
We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,…

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Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van,… — Alexander McCall Smith

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