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People Quotes by Will Self
- The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
- Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand -…
- Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has…
- This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do…
- Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these…
- In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and…
- A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
- People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
- In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite…
- Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions -…
- Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities…
- 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…
- Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all…
More People Quotes
- We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. — Pope Francis
- Most important thing in life is to keep moving irrespective of the facts that you r hurt u r broken or betrayed… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever u get hurt from those people whom u love most don't blame them, fault is not their its your fault that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide