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The quote says that having more options does not necessarily make people happier. It also suggests that real life always involves limits, so no one can choose everything about how to live.
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Originally said in English.
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About Naomi Alderman
English novelist, game writer, and television executive producer
Naomi Alderman is an English novelist, game writer, and television executive producer. She is best known for her speculative science fiction novel The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017 and was later adapted into a television series for Amazon Studios. Her work moves between fiction, games, and television, with The Power as her best-known title. The novel brought her wide attention for its speculative premise and for the way it explores power, gender, and social change.
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Books by Naomi Alderman
Disobedience
2007
Marple
2023
The Lessons
2010
Doctor Who
2011