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Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

Alain de Botton

2010

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Creativity Originality

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Metaphor, analogy and simile Paradox

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2010

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Alain de Botton

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De Botton, Alain. A Week at the Airport. Profile Books, 2009.

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