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Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
"You can't write."
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2009 source ↗
People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
An English teacher said, “You’ll never make anything of yourself.”
A friend said, “If you remembered everything you did, you’d kill yourself.” He’s sort of crazy, but he’s probably right.
At 12, I wanted to be an architect, at 18, a writer, and now, at forty, an architect again. I’m powerfully drawn to everything related to building, but I also love ideas. These are my two passions.
Roland Barthes' 'Camera Lucida'.
I'd take a course in bread-making and open a small bakery.
It’s very gratifying to grow utterly incensed by the Mail Online and come away from it full of fury and absolute outrage at its prejudice and xenophobia — and support for Brexit.
The summer just after finishing How Proust Can Change Your Life.
Pulping books.
David Hare, Jack Whitehall, Adam Kay, Maggie O'Farrell, Richard Coles, Graham Norton
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