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Simon Van Booy
British
Writer
Born:
1975
Doing
Me
Think
Work
World
You
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Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
Simon Van Booy
Christmas
Grief
Doors
Way
Finds
Somehow
Cliches
Without
Tinsel
Room
Shoes are a neutral blessing for us because feet generally aren't regarded as a place where the battle for self-esteem is won or lost. Feet don't change size when the body does through the natural ageing process.
Simon Van Booy
Change
Blessing
Natural
Battle
Lost
Shoes
Through
Neutral
Generally
Feet
Self-Esteem
Because
Does
Won
Where
Size
Regarded
Process
Place
Ageing
Us
Body
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
Simon Van Booy
Day
World
Matter
Will
Every
Resort
One Day
Visit
Parent
Sophisticated
How
Cultured
Child
Walt
Walt Disney
Disney
Succumb
When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.
Simon Van Booy
You
Yourself
Space
Bit
Give
Something
More
Understand
Up
Where
Landscape
Used
Fill
Need
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.
Simon Van Booy
Love
Death
Me
World
Will
Value
Lost
Think
Other
Everyone
Everything
Some
About
More
Point
Taken
Simply
Makes
Getting
Being
Them
Us
Much
Each
Now
Eventually
Away
I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.
Simon Van Booy
Time
Me
Writing
Seriously
Made
Nothing
Living
Else
Typewriter
Furniture
My Time
Take
Had
Because
Just
Apartment
Large
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.
Simon Van Booy
Great
Heroes
Think
Great American
John
John Coltrane
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Emily
Emily Dickinson
Coltrane
Like
Lincoln
American
I once saved someone from drowning.
Simon Van Booy
Saved
Once
Someone
Drowning
As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.
Simon Van Booy
Me
Man
Anxiety
Care
Made
Single
Become
Own
Control
Enormous
Tyrannical
Someone
Parent
Could
Take
Never
Had
Take Care
Single Parent
Caused
His
Survive
May
Lists
Order
Anything
Little
To Survive
Toddler
Naturally
Who
Receipts
Kept
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
Simon Van Booy
Work
Alone
Day
Silence
Light
Face
Long
Back
Writers
Fades
Hours
Pass
Coming
Often
Turns
Moment
Night
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.
Simon Van Booy
Life
Art
Ensuring
City
New
Longevity
Like
Trying
York
New York
New York City
Public
Themselves
View
Dedicate
Works
Museums
Save
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