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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

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Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

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Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

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There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

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I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

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It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

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To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

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A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

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We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

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Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

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Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

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The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

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We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

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We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

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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.

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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

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