Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith
R. Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a British writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 August 1948
love essentials
The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
age faces bears
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
kindness men thinking
We all know that it is women who take 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.
fall thinking way
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
plenty
There is plenty of work for love to do.
work-out people world
It is not enough just to identify a problem; there are plenty of people who were very skilled at pointing out what was wrong with the world, but they were not always so adept at working out how these things could be righted.
desire complaining culture
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.
evil battle stories
The good were worthy of note 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.
quirky stalking international-business
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
opposites way moral
It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.
talking pumpkin grows
Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
self appreciate doe
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
lying half distinction
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.