Alexander McCall Smith Citas

• The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

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  Tea, Stories, Cups

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Miracle at Speedy Motors”, p.22, Anchor

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• You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

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  Life, Friendship, Years

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Jul 15, 2011

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• Most people want nothing to happen. 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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  Gratitude, Thinking, Government

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

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  Joy, Understanding, Finding Yourself

  Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor

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• Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

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  Art, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner..., things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.

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  Memories, Party, Cities

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.356, Anchor

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• Los modales son los pilares básicos de la sociedad civil.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Block, Building, Manners

  Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor

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• A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

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  Life, Animal, Land

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• No veo por qué hay que desanimarse. Más vale que disfrutemos durante nuestra breve estancia en esta vida.

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  Might, This Life, Enjoy

  "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The Culture of Complaint... 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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  Desire, Complaining, Culture

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The World According to Bertie”, p.19, Anchor

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• There is room in history for all of us.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Habitaciones

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Miracle at Speedy Motors”, p.173, Anchor

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• We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

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  Memories, Sky, Smell

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

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  Pensar, Momentos

  Alexander McCall Smith (2006). “The Right Attitude to Rain”, p.7, Anchor

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• We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

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  Thinking, Forever, World

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “The Careful Use of Compliments”, p.12, Anchor

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• El problema, por supuesto, era que la gente no parecía entender la diferencia entre el bien y el mal. Necesitaban que se les recordara esto, porque si se les dejaba que lo resolvieran por sí mismos, nunca se molestarían. Se limitarían a averiguar qué es lo mejor para ellos, y entonces lo llamarían lo correcto. Así pensaba la mayoría de la gente.

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  Diferencias, Personas, Trabajo

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.

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  Snakes, Moments, Arise

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• They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.

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  Bello, Pensamiento, Nubes

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• When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

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  People, Wish, Needs

  Alexander McCall Smith (2012). “The Limpopo Academy Of Private Detection”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.

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  Thinking, Finals, Analysis

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Oct 19, 2011

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• Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Talking, Pumpkin, Grows

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• Es a través de las pequeñas cosas que desarrollamos nuestra imaginación moral, para que podamos entender los sufrimientos de los demás.

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  Suffering Of Others, Imagination, Moral

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• ¡Y cómo nos parecemos a nuestros padres! Cómo sus consejos desdeñados -basados, nos sentíamos en nuestra superioridad, en prejuicios y en una confusa sabiduría popular-, cómo sus opiniones se ven confirmadas posteriormente por nuestros propios descubrimientos y nuestro sentido del mundo, uno tras otro. Y a medida que esto sucede, nos damos cuenta con creciente horror de esa proposición que nunca antes habríamos considerado: ¡nuestras madres tenían razón!

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  Mother, Discovery, Parent

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

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• Everything has been something before.

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  Ha sido

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• There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

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• [Edimburgo] es una ciudad de luz cambiante, de cielos cambiantes, de vistas repentinas. Una ciudad tan hermosa que rompe el corazón una y otra vez.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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