Will Self Quotes
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I like to discover new things.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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Stay single as long as you can - you'll be married the rest of your life.
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In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
