Will Self Quotes
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure.
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[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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When I made my final reckoning with the decision not to have kids, I also decided that I would use at least some of my extra time to better the lives of kids who are already here.
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As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
