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Thinking Quotes by Will Self
- I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living…
- The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
- ...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny,…
- 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…
- People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
- A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think…
- From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look…
- I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my…
- I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that…
- It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play…
- Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug…
- The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness…
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- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello