“You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.”
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Famous Alain de Botton Quotes
“As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.”
“I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.”
“My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.”
“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.”