Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know...
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
Mma Ramotswe found it difficult to imagine what it would be like to have no people. There were, she knew, those who had no others in this life, who had no uncles, or aunts, or distant cousins of any d...
There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.
This was the difficulty with laws and with legal language: they used language which very few people, apart from lawyers, understood. Penal Codes, then, were all very well, but she wondered whether it...
People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary
So one might cry for everything that was wrong with the world, for all the injustice and crudity and cruelty, for all the things that are stolen from people.
Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more th...
Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?
Do you think your dog might have been drunk when he bit these people, Mr Lordie?
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the o...
Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it
You can't deceive your own mother. That's the one person, the only one, to whom you will always be transparent.
It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.
If people have ghosts, then why shouldn't other things have them? What makes us so special that only we can have ghosts?
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.
Nemo dat quod non habet.
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.
It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a poisoned cup from which one should drink with the greatest caution. One might have all the t...
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
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