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Yet often, they know but just don’t care. So the task of serious journalism isn’t just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.

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Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
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Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.
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The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
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The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness”.
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I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.
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Most good thinking has its origin in fear.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.
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Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.
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William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour.
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