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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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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She was convinced that men didn’t give a damn about other people’s feelings and that they got away with whatever they wanted. Women couldn’t be trusted either. They were too weak to stand up for themselves, and they’d sell their bodies to get men to take care of them. If you were in trouble, they wouldn’t lift a finger to help you. This worldview manifested itself in the way Marilyn approached her colleagues at work: She was suspicious of the motives of anyone who was kind to her and called them on the slightest deviation from the nursing regulations. As for herself: She was a bad seed, a fundamentally toxic person who made bad things happen to those around her.
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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.
