"There's a flip side to having prominent public……" — Will Self
"There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results."
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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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Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through…
— John Bonham
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!
— Helena Bonham Carter
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My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Setting a good example is truly the most effective means of communication - and setting a poor one is disastrous!
— Jan Carlzon
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If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected…
— Sandra Bullock
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Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.
— Bernhard Langer
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The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
— Robert Morley
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be…
— John Henry Jowett
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an…
— Lewis Mumford
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There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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