22 ordspråk av Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton
 Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches. |
| I find a welcome interest in the problems of everyday life. I find a humanity and a devotion to using thought to alleviate suffering. |
| 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. |
| I used to walk past this block of flats and wonder: 'Who could have built that? What were they thinking? What were they trying to do? |
| I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do. |
| Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. |
| Literature has always had its circus side, its freaks and its frivolities - and maybe that's all part of it, and no bad thing if it draws people towards what is most worthwhile. |
| 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. |
| Snobbery exists in all areas of life, not least literary criticism. By snobbery I mean, any method of judging someone or something whereby you latch on to one or two features about them/it, and use these to come to a definitive, immovable judgement. In intellectual matters, the snob will often take the external features of a work as a guide to its value. |
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