"As for critical writing about modernism, its moments……" — Will Self
"As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty."
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112 Quotes by Will Self
Will Self has 112 quotes on this site.
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Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
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So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
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I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at…
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I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
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Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the…
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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded,…
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved…
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...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it…
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Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
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Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...
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In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're…
— Scott Bakula
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There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media -…
— Alec Baldwin
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I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read…
— John Banville
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Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
— Diane Abbott
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I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired…
— Allan Bloom
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his…
— John Boehner
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Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better…
— Erma Bombeck
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I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
— Jeff Bridges
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can…
— Malin Akerman
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There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated…
— Nicolas Cage
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