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Oliver Burkeman has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's…
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Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle,…
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Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this…
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True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and…
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to…
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Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would…
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Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce…
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours…
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
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The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
— David Foster Wallace
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A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
— Charlotte Rampling
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours…
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London now has its own John Grisham.
— Mark Billingham
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with…
— John Grisham
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I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star…
— Simon Cowell
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At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit.
— Danielle Steel
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I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you…
— John Grisham
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I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come…
— Simone Elkeles
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I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen…
— Hillary Clinton
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This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I…
— James Patterson
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