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Than Quotes by Will Self
- There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.
- Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me…
- When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined…
- Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about…
- I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
- What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal.…
- 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…
- The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems…
- I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at…
- I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive…
- One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and…
- Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via…
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