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I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole. "

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Rory Sutherland

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

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The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

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Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually. . . once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception.

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When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.

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Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

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When you place a value on things like health, love, sex and other things, and learn to place a material value on what you've previously discounted for being merely intangible. . . you realize you're much, much wealthier than you ever imagined.

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I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole. "

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