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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
Some people mocked you if you said that you joined others when your time came. Well, they could laugh, those clever people, but we surely had to hope, and a life without hope of any sort was no life: it was a sky without stars, a landscape of sorrow and emptiness."
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
Cake," said Mma Ramotswe quickly. "That is Mr J.L.B. Matekoni's great weakness. He cannot help himself when it comes to cake. He can be manipulated very easily if he has a plate of cake in his hand.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
She moved, so that they were now standing arm in arm: two ladies, she thought, a brown lady from Botswana and a white lady from somewhere far away, America perhaps, somewhere like that, some place of neatly cut lawns and air conditioning and shining buildings, some place where people wanted to love others if only given the chance.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
wise men are remembered, they always are.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
were in need of bodywork. It had always amused
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
It was an innocent enough activity, after all; like looking at the sky, perhaps, when the sun was going down and had made the clouds copper-red, or looking at a herd of fine cattle moving slowly over the land when rains had brought on the sweet green grass. These were pleasures which the soul needed from time to time, and she would wait for Mma Makutsi until she had examined the shoes from all angles.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
But that miracle would eventually arrive, as it always had, and the landscape would turn from brown to green within hours under the kiss of the rain. And there were other colours that would follow the green; yellows, blues, reds would appear in patches across the veld as if great cakes of dye had been crumbled and scattered by an unseen hand.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
Such men knew their worth, but did not flaunt it. Such men could look anybody in the eye without flinching; even a poor man, a man with nothing, could stand upright in the presence of those who had wealth or power. People did not know, Mma Ramotswe felt, just how much we had in those days-those days when we seemed to have so little, we had so much. She
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
...when she had those dreams at night, he was there, as if he had never died, although she knew, even in the dream, that he had. One day she would join him, she knew, whatever people said about how we came to an end when we took our last breath. Some people mocked you if you said that you joined others when your time came. Well, they could laugh, those clever people, but we surely had to hope, and a life without hope of any sort was no life: it was a sky without stars, a landscape of sorrow and emptiness.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
We were all people-men and women-and you could never say that one group of people was less important than another.
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Alexander McCall Smith _ Blue Shoes and Happiness
They are a bit small for me, Mma," she confessed. "I think you were right. But I felt great happiness when I wore them, and I shall always remember that. They are such beautiful shoes." Mma Ramotswe laughed. "Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it." "I think that you're right," said Mma Makutsi. Happiness was an elusive thing. It had something to do with having beautiful shoes, sometimes; but it was about so much else. About a country. About a people. About having friends like this.
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