Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: August 24, 1948

Topics

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If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

Joan Rivers

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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Jerry Garcia

LifeDeathYouMatterComparison

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'

Jenny Offill

ReachYouDoneSayUnderstandNever

I've read, like, 10,000 self-help books.

Jen Sincero

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There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.

Robert McFarlane

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I don't want to get punched all my life.

Amir Khan

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It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

Sidney Blumenthal

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What you say about me, my family, and on my social media says a lot more about your character than it does mine.

Tomi Lahren

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Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.

Tom Catena

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The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

Mary McCarthy

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Everyone who worked on 'The Fox and the Hound' is important. We're all lucky to be in a business that we love.

Mickey Rooney

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Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.

Michael Nesmith

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