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Being Quotes by Will Self
- Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far…
- If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially…
- Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character…
- Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an…
- The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities…
- The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings…
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