Quotes
Authors
Alexander McCall Smith

"What I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

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“I rarely write by myself.”
“We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.”
“The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.”

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“Enjoy the now. Time flies, enjoy it while you can.”

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“When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.”
“The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.”
“Witches never existed, except in peopleâ€™s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? Weâ€™re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. Weâ€™re all witches beneath the skin.”

Source : Ian Rankin (1986). “The flood”, P D Meany Pub
“Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served.”

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