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Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

Alain de Botton

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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Anybody Complete Part Small Snob Take Use Vision
We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
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Heart Impress Keep People Place Refuse Special
Differ though we might with Christianity’s view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis.
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Community Differ might Need Precise Proactive Religious Soul Thesis
The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven’t been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care.
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Art Care Dream False Idea Identify Make News People
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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Business Card Danger Dep Disconnect Inside
You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
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Alcohol Day Hard Logic Long Need Reveal
A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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Beauty Capable Excite Feature Sense Spectator Successful Work
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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Along End Get Idea Want Wnough Worse
Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.
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Eat Force People Promote Together Tolerance
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.
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Book Console Perhaps Sad
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
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Act Conscious Cynical Draw Money Object Power World
The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
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Challenge Human Interest More Now Smartphone
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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Anxiety Apprehend Book Continuous Dangerous Emotion Enjoy Finger Gloom Good
We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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Close Envy Feel Friend Group Member Ourselves Reference
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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Century Dead Like Serious Strike Taken
Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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Easier Except Happy Learn Less Play Practice Require Unnatural Violin

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