Will Self Quotes

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• With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our…
• You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like…
• I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do…
• The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to…
• Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all…
• Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those…
• You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this…
• Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
• A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
• Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.
• To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese…
• It would seem that I, who never could make much sense of physics when I was at school, have now gained a strong sense of…

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