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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.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Am Certain Gives Kind Me Old-Fashioned Sure Trauma Upper-Class I Am

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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

Topics: Always Am Aspects Attention Boundaries Conscious Formal How Little Many Me Non-Fiction Pay Stretch Surprised Trying Work Writers Writing I Am

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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

Topics: Also Am Happy Insist Interesting Terrible Thinkers Writers I Am I Am Happy

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I am always anxious.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Always Am Anxious I Am

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I am not a foodie, thank goodness. I will eat pretty much anything. A lot of my friends are getting incredibly fussy about food and I see it as a bit of an affliction.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Affliction Am Anything Bit Eat Food Friends Fussy Getting Goodness Incredibly Lot Much Pretty Pretty Much Anything See Thank Thank Goodness Will I Am I See

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I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Always Am Bright Feel Get Got Impatient Point Reader Sense Somebody Someone Time Unlimited Who Writing I Am

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As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: About Am Been Depression Despair Fool Gloom Hate Myself Personality Prone I Am

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I am a very aesthetic person.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aesthetic Am Person Very I Am

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I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Academic Agree Am Approach Art Attained Interested Loose Only Philosopher Philosophy Psychoanalysis Reason Sense Someone Subject Through Universities Very Way Well-Being Wisdom I Am

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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Am Artisan Been Chocolate Doing Fifth France His Long Long Time Others Own Produce Time I Am

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