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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.

Alain de Botton

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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
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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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Social media has lots of benefits, but compared to Christianity, it tends to group people by interests. Religion puts you with people who have nothing in common except that you’re human.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one’s own ambitions.
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One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
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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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We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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