QUOTES by Alexander McCall Smith
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"How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?"
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"There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it."
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"Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was."
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"Women, as usual, were expected to behave better than men, and inevitably attracted criticism for doing things that men were licensed to do with impunity."
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"The problem with being me, thought Isabel, as she walked along George IV Bridge, is that I keep thinking about the problem of being me."
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"Will you be my friend?” Bertie asked. And then added: “Just for Paris. You don’t have to be my friend forever – just for Paris."
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"Moisturiser and a good cry: two things for modern men to think about."
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"Mma Ramotswe did not like lying, but sometimes it was necessary, particularly when faced with people who were promoted beyond their talents."
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"She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow that sometimes persists after a light has gone out."
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"None of us is immune to shipwreck. Come, beckons the fatal shore: come and die on my white sands, it said. And we do."
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"I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't."
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"Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze."
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"...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more."
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"You say that you lost your child. You know how I feel then. You know that, don't you? It's a sadness that never goes away."
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"She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in America, and that it was inexplicable that people who could do so did not."
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"The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future."
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"It is my duty to help them solve the mysteries in their lives. That is what I am called to do."
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"Lightning always strikes in the same place twice," said Mma Ramotswe. "Whatever people say to the contrary."
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"Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it."
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"Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known"
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"She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books."
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"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo, crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Probably not."
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"...has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people fall in love gradually rather than on the first occasion they meet the other person?"
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"That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are."
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"You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first."
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"The new lover, of a few weeks standing, may seem more precious than friends of decades."
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"You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life."
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"Distant wrongs, she thought: an interesting issue in moral philosophy. Do past wrongs seem less wrong to us simply because they are less vivid?"
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"Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are."
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"I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in that life--love both given and received."
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"For each of us, she thought, there is out completeness in another. Whether we find it, or it finds us, or it eludes all finding is a matter of moral luck."
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"Brother Fox looked in. He saw two people. He saw them raise their glasses of wine to him, liquid that for him was suspended in the air, as if by a miracle."
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"If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least."
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"It just did not make sense; unless, of course, as she had suggested, we all have a weak point, an area of intellectual or emotional vulnerability that may be quite out of keeping with out character."
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"I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down."
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"Nobody went to bed at seven in Paris, even French children. Les enfants stayed up late at night, he had heard, eating with the adults, sipping red wine, and discussing the latest books and films."
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"How remarkable it was, she thought, that we managed to anchor ourselves at all in this world, and that we did so by giving ourselves names and linking those names with places and other people."
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"It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt."
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"She felt that she had revealed something to Cat, and with revealing something about oneself there always comes a sense of lightening of the load that we all carry; the load of being ourselves."
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"...because love can come, if you believe in it and behave as if it exists. That was the case, too, with free will; with perhaps, fath of any sort; and love was a sort of faith, was it not?"
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"Tea, for me, is one of the great subjects. It is a romatic trade, it does not pollute excessively, it has all sorts of health benefits, it calms and wakes you up at the same time."
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