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Even Quotes by Will Self
- Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only…
- In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics;…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions -…
- The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing…
- 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…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- 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
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo