Will Self Quotes
The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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Is Naked Juice a beverage, or is it a snack? I think we can liquefy snacks or snackify liquids.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
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One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
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Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
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When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.
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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.
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Good feelings are fragile, with me love doesn’t last. Love for a man doesn’t last, not even love for a child, it soon gets a hole in it. You look in the hole and you see the nebula of good intentions mixed up with the nebula of bad.
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There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.
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The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us.
