English - Writer | December 20, 1969 -
I was told by my father nine times a day that you were going to get a job the minute you finish your studies.
Alain de Botton
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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.
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Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.
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I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.
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I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.
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The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'
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My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.
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Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
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Sometimes I say to people, 'Do you think you're easy to live with?' People who are single. And the ones who say, 'Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty easy to live with; it's just a question of finding the right person,' massive alarm bell rings in my mind.
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If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.
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I don't want to say that our expectations of love are too high; it's just that if we're to meet them, we have to become a little more self-aware.
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I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.
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