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Alexander McCall Smith

"It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none."

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A.E. Samaan

"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."

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A.E. Samaan

"Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage."

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A.E. Samaan

"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."

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A.E. Samaan

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

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A.E. Samaan

"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

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A.E. Samaan

"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."

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A.E. Samaan

"We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic."

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A.E. Samaan

"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time, they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl. He sounded rather a nice man to Bertie. Any why should he not dress up in feathers and live in the forests if that was what he wanted to do? It was typical of his mother to try to spoil Grey Owl's fun."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"I said to him that Zululand sounded fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time."

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Alexander McCall Smith
"When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say. That applied in every sort of case; it was a human truth of universal application, but one which most people knew little or nothing about."

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