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A Song of Comfortable Chairs
Alexander McCall Smith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You might disagree with others for what they said or for what they did—that was one thing—but to take against them simply for what they were was to blame them for something over which they had no control, and was cruel, and profoundly wrong.”
“Words were the very first bandage for any wound.”
“We should love one another, she thought, not only because it was the right thing to do, but also because it was far easier than hating one another. People who hated often had to work quite hard at keeping their hatred warm.”
“This advertisement let you be yourself, which is what most people really wanted, when you came to think of it.”
“They are not much use to anybody, really. It is very sad.” He smiled. “And then, suddenly, at seventeen—sometimes at age sixteen—they grow out of all of that and they become nice once more, just as they were before this terrible thing called adolescence happened to them.”
“The real art in going through life with dignity and with a modicum of happiness was to accept what you were, and, at the same time, to accept others—and to love them all equally.”
“She liked such stories because it helped people to believe in justice, which we had to believe in if we were not simply to give up in the face of adversity.”
“It would have been better to talk,’ muttered Mma Makutsi. Mma Ramotswe agreed. It was always – always – better to talk.”
“Her tone was breezy. That, she thought, was the best way to talk to teenagers—about anything. You talked to them in that way, as if you were not expecting them to be listening to you—which, of course, they were not.”
“He came over the border at night, as he had no papers. It is not easy, Mma, to have no papers. If you are a person without papers, then you are nothing. Even cattle have papers these days, Mma—I’m joking, of course, but that is what it can feel like to have no papers.”
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