"It could be argued that every age gets……" — Will Self

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112 Quotes by Will Self

Will Self has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at…
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the…
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded,…
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved…
...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it…
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.
Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft...

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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