Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.
タグ: optimism, past, you, work

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If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.
タグ: writer, going, london, me
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
タグ: teenager, books, world, romantic
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
タグ: standing, cow, man, rain
If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.
タグ: feeling, you, me, work
The evidence of paranormal research shows that there is a part of our being that knows far more than the conscious mind. And the evidence of mystics through the ages suggests that there is a part of our being that knows even greater secrets than this.
タグ: secrets, paranormal, mystics, mind, knowledge
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