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Which Quotes by Will Self
- I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
- There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
- 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…
- Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that…
- I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling…
- If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially…
- 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…
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