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Own Quotes by Will Self
- So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
- Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
- If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially…
- 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;…
- 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…
- 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…
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