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Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexander McCall Smith

Kreativitas

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Keluarga

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Motivasi

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Nasihat

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Pendidikan

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Pendidikan

My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.

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Seni

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

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Alexander McCall Smith

Kehidupan

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

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Seni

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

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Cinta

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

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