“What you’re reading here is basically a person having a conversation with his own biography.”
“The only difference between a medicine and a poison is the dosage.”
“The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden.”
“The text runs 65 pages, short ones, and the prose seems pressed out drop by drop. Dillard later said the book took 14 months to write, full-time, which works out to something like 25 words a day. The sentences are bitten rock, bitter water, biting wind…”
William Deresiewicz
The Atlantic
Jules Evans, author of The Art of Losing Control, gives an introduction on why getting out of our heads is good for us.
Jules Evans
philosophyforlife.org
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Lily Vanili
Docherty named number four in top ten list of favourite Scottish novels
SBT
Scottish Book Trust
‘Burkeman would be the first to accept that he hasn’t written the last word on human happiness. But he has written some of the most truthful and useful words on it to be published in recent years. The knowledge Burkeman draws on may well come from others, but the book’s quiet wisdom is all his own. This is a marvellous synthesis of good sense, which would make a bracing detox for the self-help junkie.’
Julian Baggini
The Guardian
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