Will Self Quotes
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're going to move back to Indiana.' Well, that might be when I'm 26.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
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The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
