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What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather than accidentally incomplete.Collection: Alain
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead it. It is advertising for the things we really need.Collection: Alain
I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.Collection: Alain
What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.Collection: Alain
Politicians want people to be nice neighbours, but the tools at their disposal are just the tools of modern liberal society, which are nothing.Collection: Alain
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.Collection: Alain
Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.Collection: Alain
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.Collection: Alain
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.Collection: Alain
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.Collection: Alain
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.Collection: Alain
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.Collection: Alain
I am always anxious.Collection: Alain
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.Collection: Alain
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.Collection: Alain
I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.Collection: Alain
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.Collection: Alain
I went to church and couldn't swallow it. The music was nice but I don't belong there.Collection: Alain
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.Collection: Alain
When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.Collection: Alain
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.Collection: Alain
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.Collection: Alain
It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'Collection: Alain
As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.Collection: Alain
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.Collection: Alain
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.Collection: Alain
I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.Collection: Alain
There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'Collection: Alain
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.Collection: Alain
There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.Collection: Alain
A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.Collection: Alain
When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.Collection: Alain
If I'm a great artisan of the kitchen, it's because I don't buy my sauces.Collection: Alain
The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.Collection: Alain
Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.Collection: Alain
I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.Collection: Alain
I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.Collection: Alain
I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.Collection: Alain
For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.Collection: Alain
Given the number of restaurants I have, I could easily travel all the time - but I try not to.Collection: Alain
If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.Collection: Alain
For me, the most luxurious place is somewhere that allows you to feel emotions and pleasures.Collection: Alain
I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.Collection: Alain
I am overfed, so when I am at home, I stop eating.Collection: Alain
I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients.Collection: Alain
I prefer to be able to identify what I'm eating. I have to know.Collection: Alain
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.Collection: Alain
I do most of the cooking in my head.Collection: Alain
I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.Collection: Alain