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You Quotes by Will Self
- What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence…
- You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party…
- 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 -…
- 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…
- You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio.…
- When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined…
- The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
- Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can…
- Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that…
- 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 write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at…
- Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far…
- What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
- You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like…
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
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