"Once the working classes were in chains, now……" — Will Self
"Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants."
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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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More Chain Quotes
This quote is filed under Chain Quotes,
one of 726 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost…
— Jello Biafra
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert…
— Orlando Bloom
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
— Wade Boggs
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a…
— Sandra Bullock
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
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