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Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “The important thing is to carry on doing what you’re doing,’ she said. ‘And not to do what you think other people think you should do. You should do what you do as well as you possibly can.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “In her experience, the places one set off for were usually still there no matter when one arrived; it would be different, naturally enough, if towns, villages, houses moved – then one might have a real reason to hurry – but they did not.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “There are lies you tell with your lips and lies you don’t need your lips for. And once people start telling lies, then they become like spiders who weave their web about themselves. They become stuck-caught by the lies all about them. And then they can’t get out of the web, no matter how hard they try.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “One might forget so many exotic cheeses, he thought, but the memory of cheddar always remained. “Should one be embarrassed by choosing cheddar every time?” he asked. Matthew laughed. “There’s no need to apologize for simple things.” “But is cheddar simple?” Domenica enquired. “Just because there’s a lot of it, does that make it simple?”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “Hate is very easy to unleash,” the Duke continued. “All you need is the Other. And then people will take over from you and do all the hating that needs to be done, all the belittling, all the insulting and bullying.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “People’s lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may make the difference between a life of happiness and one of sorrow.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “That, of course, is always a good time to think – when you know that you are going to have to do something, but you know that you do not have to do it just yet.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “Dogs can read signals – look at sheepdogs; they understand hand movements for left and right. Dogs are no fools, you know.” He paused. “Well, some are. Some dogs are truly stupid, Ulf.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “The whole culture of work had become so intrusive and demanding that people had to do it. And the result was that they were left with little time for simply living their lives, for going for a walk, for sitting in a bar, for reading a book. It was all work.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “Charlie had indeed done something stupid. But this realisation only made her want to defend him. Of course young men did stupid things – it was part of being a young man.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “Putting Mr. Polopetsi in charge of the investigation is like putting a rabbit in charge of the airport.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “If only people could keep that in their minds – if they could remember that the people they met during the day had all the same hopes and fears that they had, then there would be so much less conflict and disagreement in this world. If only people remembered that, then they would be kinder to others – and kindness, Mma Ramotswe believed, was the most important thing there was. She knew that in the depths of her being; she knew it.”
Alexander McCall Smith Quote: “I think that we’ve made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in relation to human rights but I think that we are losing sight of some of the values of concern for others, and self-respect and respect for others.”
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