Adrian Tan





Adrian Tan

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Average rating: 3.95 · 106 ratings · 8 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Teenage Textbook
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions
The Teenage Workbook, or, T...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1989

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“You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.”
Adrian Tan

“Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.

Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.”
Adrian Tan

“Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.”
Adrian Tan



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