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  1. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    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 eight and nine it was an intrusion; thereafter calls could be made until ten in the evening, although anything after nine-thirty required an apology for the disturbance. After ten one was into emergency time again.
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  2. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    She saw the picture of idle fishing boats tied up at Peterhead; further gloom for Scotland and for a way of life that had produced such a strong culture. Fishermen had composed their songs; but what culture would a generation of computer operators leave behind them?
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  3. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different
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  4. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    This was loyalty of a sort which was rare in an age of self-indulgence. It was an old-fashioned virtue of the type which her philosophical colleagues extolled but could never themselves match.
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  5. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    they were two people thrown together on a journey, who found themselves sharing the same railway compartment and becoming resigned to each other's company."
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  6. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    Pickled onions had nothing to do with moral imagination, but were important in their own quiet, vinegary way, Isabel supposed.
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  7. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    That's perfect," he said. "I'm sorry about that. It's genetic, I think. My mother had exactly the same problem, and a cousin of hers too. We're allergic to raw onion.
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  8. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    Who is happier, those who are aware, and doubt, or those who are sure of what they believe in, and have never doubted or questioned it? The answer, she had concluded, was that this had nothing to do with happiness, which came upon you like the weather, determined by your personlaity.
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  9. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    She was tuned in to a different station from most people and the tuning dial was broken.
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  10. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    Whisky nosers, as they called themselves, eschewed what they saw as the pretentiousness of wine vocabulary. While oenophiles resorted to recondite adjectives, whisky nosers spoke the language of everyday life, detecting hints of stale seaweed, or even diesel fuel.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at least in some countries, choosing instead German composers who were somewhat more ... apologetic.
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ The Sunday Philosophy Club

    It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.
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