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Alexander McCall Smith
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The Novel Habits of Happiness
He's called Ottolenghi, that chef. And he deserves a tongue twister of his own. Lo, Ottolenghi lengthens leeks laterally. How about that? Or, Competent chefs count cous cous cautiously?
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Alexander McCall Smith
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…one of the coasts of a country that was a lifeboat, and that lifeboat was under siege by people who wanted to be taken on board. She thought to the southern shores of Italy and the boats that came up from the south, crammed with the desperate of North Africa striving to get into Europe. The vessels capsized under their human cargo; there were people in the water, their dream coming to a watery end. How could one turn one's face against all of that? What sort of person would one have to be to sail past?
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…one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there…. So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who had to put up with that, so many….
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…did it make a difference if the remark never got back to the person about whom it was made? She thought not. The harm is done when the words are uttered: that is the act of belittlement, the act of diminishing the other, and it is that act which would cause pain to the victim. You said that about me? The wrong was located in the making of the cruel remark, rather than in the pain it might later cause."
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clichéd in their repetition and their superficiality, but part of an identity that saved us from feeling utterly lonely and detached, mere passengers on a circular rock spinning through space.
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The Novel Habits of Happiness
microbial resistance to antibiotics…
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The Novel Habits of Happiness
Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a jolly good cry And always remember, the longer you live, the sooner you jolly well die.
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The Novel Habits of Happiness
All of us had hard choices, she thought; the greatest of us and the least of us, and we had to feel our way through them and accept that there would sometimes be regrets."
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The Novel Habits of Happiness
Violins sang, brass crowed, while bassoons, she felt, rumbled according to a Richter scale all of their own. Charlie
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Alexander McCall Smith
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The Novel Habits of Happiness
Perhaps this was a concomitant of freedom: if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste. Perhaps
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that was enough to make her blush with shame for the mere fact that Las Vegas existed. There"
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No, the idea of a benevolent god was very much an exception in the enormous pantheon of gods that people had invented over the course of human history.
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