Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one’s own doorstep was a shock.

Alexander McCall Smith

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• One might expect bad behaviour from existentialists – indeed that was what existentialism was all about, was it not? – but to find this happening on one’s own doorstep was a shock.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Bad
  • Existentialism