"I think I now understand why it is……" — Will Self
"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 they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom."
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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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
— Theodore Bikel
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He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and…
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
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Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an…
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored…
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I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but…
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Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he…
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She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a…
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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father,…
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I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!" "Adrian?" "What are you doing here?" "Looking for you. Come…
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