"Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into……" — Will Self
"Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life."
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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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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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Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party…
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Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A.…
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This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much…
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By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.
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In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is…
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of…
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I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction; it was done in a test tube, which…
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. . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be…
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In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which…
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Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer…
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Imagination is activating the SIM card of your super conscious.-RVM
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My give a fuck button totally failed to commence operation this morning..so, until further notice I'm activating my 'go-on-now' button.…
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