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Alexander McCall Smith

"Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe â€“ the only lady private detective in Botswana â€“ brewed redbush tea. And three mugs â€“ one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

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“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial
“In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.”
“The worst thing about losing this job: Iâ€™m no longer covered by NBC. I have to sign up for ObamaCare.”
“Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them”
“We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.”
“For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.”
“I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.”
“Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.”

Source : Richard North Patterson (2011). “The Final Judgment”, p.104, Macmillan

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