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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.

Alain de Botton

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When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.
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There is real danger of a disconnect between what’s on your business card and who you are deep inside, and it’s not a disconnect that the world is ready to be patient with.
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Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
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Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
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Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.
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There’s a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
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It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.
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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
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The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
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We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.
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Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can’t accept that.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as paralysing as having to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
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It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
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Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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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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There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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