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Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
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So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to…
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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
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Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing…
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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements…
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract…
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...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion…
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Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
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Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...
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The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising…
— Guillaume Faye
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We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in…
— Vijay Prashad
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We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is…
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today
— Ismail Serageldin
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We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.
— Vladimir Zhirinovsky
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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless…
— J. B. Priestley
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That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out…
— Will Self
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