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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

born 1948 United Kingdom

Alexander McCall Smith (born August 24, 1948) is a novelist. He was born in Rhodesia and worked in Botswana as a scholar of medical law before moving to the University of Edinburgh.

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Poems are different from, say, the narrative of a novel or a short story. A poem is rather like a piece of music. You don't say to a composer: “could you put in a few more C-sharps in that piece?”

The sentiment sounded trite, but then didn’t most good sentiments sound trite? It was hard to make goodness – and good people – sound interesting. Yet the good were worthy of note, of course, because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.

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