Will Self Quotes
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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You basically only discover a new thing once.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.
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Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.
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I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.
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We're all equal before a wave.
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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.
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In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.
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That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take the eye out.' ...I fought like a tiger. I said, 'No! Leave the eye alone. I am sure it will grow back.' The doctor said, 'You're too young to know.' ...But in a year's time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one today.
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Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
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My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
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If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.
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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
