We don’t see our parents as people. Your daddy was also a man—a very good man too—but he was a man.
Usually better to seek the advice of a stranger—not just any stranger, of course, as one could hardly go out onto the street and confide in the first person one encountered, but a stranger whom you kn...
There is something there—some force, or truth, perhaps—to put it at its most general. I sense it, and I suppose I’d even go so far as to say that I yearn for it. I want it to be. Maybe that’s God. But...
The human world, he reflected, was divided into little clusters of people—tiny tribes, small groups of friends, families—and if you belonged to only a few of these, then your life was circumscribed.
The finding of a cargo of whisky was, in a sense, like the finding by the Israelites of manna in the wilderness. And
Telephoned Jamie the next morning at the earliest decent hour; nine o’clock, in her view. Isabel observed an etiquette of the telephone: a call before eight in the morning was an emergency; between ei...
Something just because everybody
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One should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of anothe...
Of the large numbers of people who applied for jobs, and she wondered how employers managed to select from such a wide field. Was everyone interviewed? And even if that happened, how did one distingui...
Looked at Jock Dundas, who was
Have misgivings about people not having a spiritual life. It’s so … so shallow. I sometimes think that life without a spiritual dimension must be like being made of cardboard—and as deep and satisfyin...
Go badly wrong. Sex, she thought. That is what is going to go wrong here. And she was right. This woman, Mma Gabane Gabane went on, this foolish, foolish woman met a young man who worked in the same o...
Forgiveness of others allows us to adjust our feelings towards the past, assuages our anger. Our
Bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology
And was quite happy to let people get on with their jobs without his breathing down their necks. Privately, he and his family led a model life. He helped with Swedish-adjustment classes for refugees,...
And Mma Potokwane remained uncertain whether Mma Ramotswe was testate or intestate.
Am lucky that I can make somebody so happy just by saying something.
All of us had a view from somewhere, a view of the world from the perspective of who we were, of what had happened to us, of how we thought about things.
You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first.