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 saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I have made a career out of my hobby, which is an incredibly fortunate position to be in, but you have to have the passion. Even today, I will go down to the studio and start singing for what I think is 10 minutes, and I look at the clock, and it's been two hours.
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I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy the oil industry, that they are being watched.
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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.
