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Alexander McCall Smith, born on August 24, 1948, is a renowned Scottish writer known for his light-hearted and thoughtful writing style. His most famous works include the 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series, which has gained him a wide readership around the world.

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“Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.”

Book:La's Orchestra Saves the World

Source: La's Orchestra Saves the World

“We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.”

Book:The Right Attitude to Rain

Source: The Right Attitude to Rain

“He thought of all the ways that so many people felt about life. Life was a matter of regret--how could it be anything else? We knew that we would lose the things we loved; we knew that sooner or later we would lose everything, and beyond that was a darkness, a state of non-being that we found hard to imagine, let alone accept.”

Life Death Regret

Book:The Department of Sensitive Crimes

Source: The Department of Sensitive Crimes

“There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.”

Life Progress Tyrants Africa Alexander Mccall Smith

Book:The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“That young man will go far, she said. I don’t know in what direction, but he will go far.”

Life Direction Alexander Mccall Smith

Book:The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

Source: The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“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.”

Life Years Friendship Childhood Inspirational Life Months Adults Bounds Substitutes Steel New Friends

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“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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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.”

Life Should Firsts Feet Land Return Careful Insult Be Careful Fling

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

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Born: August 24, 1948
Known for: Writer
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