Quotes
Authors
Alexander McCall Smith

"And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!"

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.279, Hachette UK

Alexander McCall Smith

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“There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.”
“Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.”
“Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.”
“I want to be remembered as a storyteller.”
“When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.”

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“They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.309, Springer Science & Business Media
“I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.”
“I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.”

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