"The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds……" — Will Self
"The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers."
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112 Quotes by Will Self
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