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Between Quotes by Will Self
- Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because…
- What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence…
- Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera:…
- Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands…
- 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…
- To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and…
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore