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Alexander « Sandy » McCall Smith, né le 24 août 1948 en Rhodésie , est un écrivain et juriste d'origine écossaise.

Il devient un expert très connu de droit appliqué à la médecine et la bioéthique vers la fin du XXe siècle, et fait partie de comités britanniques et internationaux mandatés pour traiter de ces sujets.

Il est toutefois surtout connu pour ses romans policiers, notamment la série Les enquêtes de Mma Ramotswe. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. août 1948  •  Autres noms Александар Мекол Смит, الکساندر مک کل اسمیت
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Alexander McCall Smith Citations

“Je suis assez intrigué par la façon dont les philosophes modernes qui sont en contact avec le monde répondent à la question de savoir comment nous devons vivre. Dans mes livres, je suis de plus en plus enclin à considérer la question de savoir comment les gens, dans leur vie de tous les jours, peuvent résoudre les dilemmes ordinaires et problèmes moraux.”

Alexander McCall Smith

I'm quite intrigued by how modern philosophers who are engaging with the world answer the question of how we should live," he said. "In my books I'm increasingly going to look at that question: how people resolve ordinary dilemmas and moral issues in their day-to-day life.
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Extrait d'un entretien dans lequel le romancier évoque le personnage qui l'a rendu célèbre — Mma Ramotswe, femme détective du Botswana — mais aussi celui de la détective philosophe édimbourgeoise Isabel Dalhousie, ainsi que la genèse de son roman feuilleton 44 Scotland Street, ou encore les années passées au Botswana et son engagement, comme fondateur et joueur de basson, dans le Really Terrible Orchestra, orchestre amateur basé à Édimbourg.
Sur les philosophes modernes

Alexander McCall Smith: Citations en anglais

“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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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Miracle at Speedy Motors

Source: The Miracle at Speedy Motors

“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre Morality for Beautiful Girls

Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls

“She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Sunday Philosophy Club

Source: The Sunday Philosophy Club

“We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Full Cupboard of Life

Source: The Full Cupboard of Life

“That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.”

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Alexander McCall Smith

Source: Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

“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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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Double Comfort Safari Club

Source: The Double Comfort Safari Club

“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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Alexander McCall Smith In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Source: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

“Do not act meanly, do not be unkind, because the time for setting things right may pass before your heart changes course.
Isabel Dalhousie”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Careful Use of Compliments

Source: The Careful Use of Compliments

“But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Source: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

“Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.'

That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.”

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Alexander McCall Smith In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Source: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

“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 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)”

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Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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“… great things may come from moments of nothingness.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Miracle at Speedy Motors

Source: The Miracle at Speedy Motors

“If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Right Attitude to Rain

Source: The Right Attitude to Rain

“There are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre Espresso Tales

Source: Espresso Tales

“Why is it that there are always these problems and misunderstandings between men and women? Surely it would have been better if God had made only one sort of person, and the children had come by some other means, with the rain perhaps.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Source: The Kalahari Typing School for Men

“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.”

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Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“There is plenty of work for love to do.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Source: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

“You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre Morality for Beautiful Girls

Source: Morality for Beautiful Girls

“We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true—if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred—all those things—you will find those too.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Full Cupboard of Life

Source: The Full Cupboard of Life

“Traditional Botswana men like ladies who are more traditionally shaped. You and I, Mma. We remind men of how things used to be in Botswana before these modern-shaped ladies started to get men all confused.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Full Cupboard of Life

Source: The Full Cupboard of Life

“The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Source: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

“These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them”

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Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Sorry about your sausage dog.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

“It was true, of course, there was an abnormal level of narcissism in our society, but it did not do, he told himself, to spend too much time going on about it. Society changed. Narcissism was about love, ultimately, even if only love of self. And that was better than hate…. Did it matter if young men thought of fashion and hair gel when, not all that many years ago, their thoughts tended to turn to war and flags and the grim partisanship of the football terrace?”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre Espresso Tales

Espresso Tales, chapter 3.
The 44 Scotland Street series

“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice – based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom – how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

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Alexander McCall Smith

Love Over Scotland, chapter 68.
The 44 Scotland Street series

“These tests are designed to exclude others from the discourse - just as the word discourse is itself designed to do. These words are intended to say to people: this is a group thing. If you don't understand what we're talking about, you're not a member of the group. So, if you call this place the Canny Man's it shows that you belong, that you know what's what in Edinburgh. And that, you know, is what everybody wants, underneath. We want to belong.”

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Alexander McCall Smith livre Espresso Tales

Espresso Tales, chapter 1.
The 44 Scotland Street series

“The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that’s how it should be.”

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Alexander McCall Smith

Love Over Scotland, chapter 17.
The 44 Scotland Street series

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