Alain De Botton Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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
 
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Suggest Revision: 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
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
 
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Suggest Revision: Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
 
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