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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
~ Alain de Botton
Anyone
Authors
Because
Books
Destination
Find
Given
Lonely
Most
Numbers
Talk
Valuable
Were
Written
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
~ Alain de Botton
Always
Am
Aspects
Attention
Boundaries
Conscious
Formal
How
I Am
Little
Little Attention
Many
Me
Non-Fiction
Pay
Stretch
Surprised
Trying
Work
Writers
Writing
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I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
~ Alain de Botton
Also
Argument
Believe
Counts
Critically
Depends
How
Just
Manner
Passionately
Presenting
Say
Success
You
Your
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I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
~ Alain de Botton
Essay
Fiction
Love
Novel
Personal
Rather
Than
Uncomfortable
Writing
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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
~ Alain de Botton
Also
Believed
Combination
Ever
Interested
Love
Marriage
Modern
Previous
Sex
Society
Suggestion
Which
You
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In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
~ Alain de Botton
Also
Because
Britain
Calling
Competition
Complete
Day
Envy
Fool
Here
I Can
Just
Live
Oh
Out
Problems
Put
Run
Someone
Stuff
Well
Without
Work
Writer
You
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It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
~ Alain de Botton
Books
Clear
Complicated
Good
Good Reason
Many
Me
Philosophy
Reason
Sound
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
~ Alain de Botton
Also
Am
Happy
I Am
I Am Happy
Insist
Interesting
Terrible
Thinkers
Writers
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
~ Alain de Botton
Any
Bombarded
Care
Deeply
How
Life
Magazine
Newspaper
Open
Our
Own
Pick
Priorities
Projects
Should
Some
Successful
Suggestions
Take
Take Care
TV
Up
You
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Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
~ Alain de Botton
Annoyed
Anxiety
Definitely
Essentially
Exists
Humiliating
Iraqis
Level
Many
Political
Reasons
Respect
Showing
Status
Them
Us
Were
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Also
Battles
Between
Conflict
Deeply
Even
Feel
Humiliated
Land
Many
More
Oil
Other
Over
People
Respect
Status
Than
Them
Those
Two
Want
War
Water
Ways
Who
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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.
~ Alain de Botton
Ages
Beautiful
Certainly
Images
Important
Influenced
Just
Middle
Middle Ages
Models
People
Piety
Religious
Rich
Rich People
Role
Role Models
Start
Surrounded
Think
Very
Were
Will
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We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
~ Alain de Botton
Attention
Fortune
Greater
Look
May
Otherwise
People
Reason
Respect
Secure
Seek
Straight
Than
Through
Us
Who
Would
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
~ Alain de Botton
About
Anyone
Fascinating
Get
Get Married
Marriage
Married
Wants
Why
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A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.
~ Alain de Botton
All Religions
Anyone
Bars
City
Concerts
Each
Experiences
Gathering
Groups
Hello
Lectures
Like
London
Never
New
OK
One Of The Things
Other
People
Religions
Restaurants
Say
Sense
Sociable
Space
Strangers
Take
Talk
Things
You
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A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.
~ Alain de Botton
Gap
Gray
Them
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Advertising is - quite often - alive to our real needs. It's just the products on offer might not be the things that will help us satisfy them.
~ Alain de Botton
Advertising
Alive
Help
Just
Might
Needs
Offer
Often
Our
Products
Quite
Real
Satisfy
Them
Things
Us
Will
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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
Almost
Filled
Fly
Him
Hired
Humiliation
Jet
Me
Once
People
Private
Publisher
Tours
Venue
Waiting
Were
Where
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Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.
~ Alain de Botton
Admit
Adult
Among
Characters
Course
Creations
People
Real
Real People
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Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.
~ Alain de Botton
Advertising
Anew
Art
Forced
Genuine
Lead
Life
Merit
Need
Opposite
Really
Show
Things
Unattainable
Us
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