What did Alexander McCall Smith mean by: We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters. - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe Copy
+ We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Cake, Mma, Temptation, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Distinction, Lying, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I’m not nihilistic. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Philosophy, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ Who can’t like pigs? They’re wonderful creatures! I’ve always liked pigs. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Creatures, Pigs, Wonderful, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Age, Faces, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Awful, New York, Wonderful, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
+ I’m interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander McCall Smith, Character, dialogue, Ideas, 0 - Alexander McCall Smith Writer · Zimbabwe
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
