English - Writer | December 20, 1969 -
I remember going to university, and the people who'd left home for the first time looked at the food and were horrified. Whereas, my view was that if it was vaguely edible, then it's fine.
Alain de Botton
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There's a certain kind of insular, old-fashioned, upper-class Britishness that gives me the spooks. I am sure that comes from a boarding-school trauma.
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Love is something that we need to learn.
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Many of our ideas of what love is comes from stories... these are extremely powerful shapers of our attitudes towards love, and I think that, in some ways, often we've got the wrong story.
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Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.
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I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.
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I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.
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A gray V-neck pullover from Gap. I have 30 of them.
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My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.
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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.
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I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.
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Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.
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