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Alexander McCall Smith, CBE , es un escritor y profesor universitario escocés.

Aunque nació en Rodesia del Sur, volvió a Escocia para sus estudios, para volver posteriormente a Botsuana, donde enseñó derecho en la Universidad de Botsuana.

Conocido principalmente como escritor, ha escrito libros juveniles, y varias novelas de detectives encuadradas en varias series: La Agencia de Detectives para Señoras nº 1, sobre una detective, Precious Ramotswe, en Gaborone, y El club de filosofía de los domingos. Asimismo ha escrito varias recopilaciones de relatos cortos.

✵ 24. agosto 1948   •   Otros nombres Александар Мекол Смит, الکساندر مک کل اسمیت
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“Las citas son un ritual de cortejo (…) Uno de los mayores problemas que hay con nuestro entendimiento teórico de las citas es que no percibimos el propósito del encuentro en sí (…) Porque lo cierto es que las citas giran en torno al sexo.”

Alexander McCall Smith

Citas en sus obras
Fuente: Citas celestiales y otros flirteos (del cuento "Informes confidenciales").
Fuente: [McCall Smith] (2006), p. 113.

“No hay que tratar de olvidar el pasado (…) no sirve de nada negarlo. Hay que afrontarlo, como hacen los alemanes; hay que sacudirlo, analizarlo detenidamente y dejarse atormentar por él hasta que se le pueda mirar de frente; algo que a la larga se consigue.”

Alexander McCall Smith

Citas en sus obras
Fuente: Citas celestiales y otros flirteos (del cuento "Cita con una ninfa").
Fuente: [McCall Smith] (2006), p. 29.

“Hay muchas cosas que no se creen de verdad, pero que no se quieren dejar de creer, por si acaso resulta que eran ciertas.”

Alexander McCall Smith

...There were many things that one did note really believe that one did not wanta to disbelieve, jus in casa they might be true...
Citas en sus obras
Fuente: The Importance of Being Seven.
Fuente: [McCall Smith] (2010), p. 169.

“En Botsuana contamos la historia de dos hermanos, un niño y una niña, que son arrebatados al cielo por un torbellino y descubren que el cielo está poblado de hermosas vacas blancas. Así es como me gusta imaginármelo, y espero que sea verdad. Espero que cuando muera vaya a parar a un sitio donde haya reses como ésas (…) Si eso es lo que me espera, no me importaría morir mañana, o incluso ahora mismo. Pero me gustaría despedirme de Precious y tener su mano en la mía cuando me vaya. Ésa sería una bonita manera de morir.”

Alexander McCall Smith

Citas en sus obras
Fuente: La 1ª Agencia de Mujeres Detectives (1998); p. 27.
Fuente: [[McCall Smith], Alexander, La 1ª Agencia de Mujeres Detectives, Santillana, 1998, 27] ISBN 9788466321921

“El miedo de lo que pueda ocurrir en el futuro es casi siempre peor de lo que finalmente el futuro trae.”

Alexander McCall Smith

Citas en sus obras
Fuente: The Importance of Being Seven.
Fuente: [McCall Smith] (2010), p. 2.

“A veces es algo, haber sido algo alguna vez.”

Alexander McCall Smith

To be a Sometime Anything is Sometimes Something.
En boca de la antropóloga Domenica Macdonald, personaje de la serie Scotland Street.
Citas en sus obras
Fuente: The Importance of Being Seven.
Fuente: [McCall Smith] (2010), p. 23.

Alexander McCall Smith: Frases en inglés

“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 libro The Miracle at Speedy Motors

Fuente: 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 libro Morality for Beautiful Girls

Fuente: Morality for Beautiful Girls

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

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Alexander McCall Smith libro The Sunday Philosophy Club

Fuente: 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 libro The Full Cupboard of Life

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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 libro The Double Comfort Safari Club

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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 libro The Careful Use of Compliments

Fuente: 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 libro Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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

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Alexander McCall Smith libro The Miracle at Speedy Motors

Fuente: 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 libro The Right Attitude to Rain

Fuente: 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 libro Espresso Tales

Fuente: 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 libro The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Fuente: 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

Fuente: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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

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Alexander McCall Smith libro Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Fuente: 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 libro Morality for Beautiful Girls

Fuente: 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 libro The Full Cupboard of Life

Fuente: 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 libro The Full Cupboard of Life

Fuente: 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 libro The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Fuente: 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

Fuente: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Sorry about your sausage dog.”

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Alexander McCall Smith libro 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 libro 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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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 libro 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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