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Alexander McCall Smith has 83 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute…
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…
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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 loved.
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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 English in…
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how…
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…
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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 of tea.
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved…
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
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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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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood,…
— Tertullian
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There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.
— Unknown Author
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What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what…
— Clara Barton
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of…
— Helen Rowland
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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He…
— Amy Hempel
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Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy.
— Esther Williams
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Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power
— Gloria Steinem
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
— John Gay
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