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A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
~ Will Self
Bear
Contemplating
Full
Likeable
Party
People
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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.
~ Will Self
Capacity
Condition
Human
Human Condition
Itself
Short
Story
Think
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A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.
~ Will Self
Asked
Back
Beautiful
Been
Breasts
Downhill
Her
Hip
Me
Once
Sign
Since
Then
Thing
Very
Woman
Young
Young Woman
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
~ Will Self
Always
Carry
Committed
Ever
Idea
Information
Lose
Mean
Memory
Minutes
Notebook
Only
Paper
Short-Term
Three
Unless
You
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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
~ Will Self
Adolescent
Fluid
Paper
Texts
Up
Were
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As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
~ Will Self
Addicted
Discrimination
Either
How
How Much
Involved
May
More
Much
Other
Phenomenon
Saying
Something
Species
Uncomfortable
Well
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As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
~ Will Self
About
Best
Business
Convinced
Equipped
Go
How
Literary
Production
Understand
Writer
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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.
~ Will Self
About
Critical
Dark
Difficulty
Incomprehensible
Landscape
Modernism
Moments
Subject
Writing
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As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
~ Will Self
Blueprint
Building
Existence
Machine
Render
Social
Sport
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Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
~ Will Self
Arms
Been
Certainly
Days
Dwelling
Embrace
Former
Future
Getting
Getting Older
Happier
Has-Been
Mind
Obsessive
Older
Open
Open Arms
Out
Rushed
Synonymous
Time
While
Who
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Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
~ Will Self
Arguably
Artificial
Closer
Consciousness
Continuous
Conventional
Dialogue
Get
Just
Life
Lived
Most
Novel
Novels
Present
Stream
Texture
Try
Which
You
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Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
~ Will Self
Always
Death
Despite
Disease
Dying
Even
Feel
Ill
Like
Little
Most
Only
Our
Phenomenon
Real
Remains
Secularism
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For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
~ Will Self
Against
Altogether
Become
Been
Books
Carry
Content
Conventions
Corset
Damn
Determined
Equivalent
Fire
Grown
Left
Many
Me
Merely
Myself
Off
Older
Producing
Realised
Ripping
Should
Strain
Write
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From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?
~ Will Self
Annoy
Anyone
Ask
From Time To Time
How
Imagine
Look
Me
Mean
Million
Publication
Quarter
Someone
Them
Think
Time
Will
Words
Work
Writes
Year
You
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I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
~ Will Self
Activity
Always
Back
Been
Displacement
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Far
Fiction
I Can
Integral
Myself
Remember
Sense
Wanted
Write
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I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.
~ Will Self
Am
Because
Belief
Books
Businesses
Buy
Cling
Enthusiastic
Exactly
Exchange
Face
Goods
Human
Human Face
I Am
Important
Least
Local
Maintain
Money
Patron
Put
Regular
Services
Some
Those
Try
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I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.
~ Will Self
Being
Besides
Britain
Consenting
Degree
Dine
Entertained
Great
Left
March
Often
Remember
Right
Should
Taking
Tolerance
Truth
View
While
Who
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I can't throw anything away. Anything. I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.
~ Will Self
Anything
Away
End
Fear
Going
Like
Lives
Network
Old
Those
Through
Throw
Trash
Up
Weirdos
Who
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I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
~ Will Self
Fantasy
I Can
Life
Living
Which
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I don't think in terms of that bizarre tautology 'value for money' in my literary and journalistic work - and nor will I in my academic role. However, if I don't believe I'm helping my students towards a fuller and more empowering relationship with the world, then I'll resign.
~ Will Self
Academic
Believe
Bizarre
Empowering
Fuller
Helping
However
Journalistic
Literary
Money
More
Nor
Relationship
Resign
Role
Students
Terms
Then
Think
Towards
Value
Will
Work
World
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