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There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.
~ Will Self
America
American
Any
Because
Deep
Greater
Ideology
Kind
Other
Poverty
Sadness
Success
Than
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There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.
~ Will Self
Believed
Call
Come
Contact
Creative
Endeavour
Happen
Intellectual
Minds
More
Older
Powerful
Progress
Something
Spirit
Suppose
Worldly
Young
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There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
~ Will Self
Disastrous
Flip
Having
Intellectuals
Meddling
Often
Politics
Prominent
Public
Quite
Results
Side
Start
Which
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This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.
~ Will Self
Alone
Among
Any
Attitude
Creative
Failure
I Think
Me
Nor
Obviously
Only
Paradox
People
Possibility
Prevails
Success
Think
Whose
Work
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To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.
~ Will Self
Accurate
Affecting
Always
Attempt
Beautifully
Between
Content
Dreadful
Fail
Falling
Feel
I Feel
Mental
Page
Painfully
Seems
Sentences
Seriously
Short
Write
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To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on.
~ Will Self
Blacks
Characters
Deliberately
Disposition
Japanese
Jews
Much
Older
Purposely
Sunny
Would
Would-Be
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What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
~ Will Self
Age
Anonymous
Between
Character
Class
Depend
Exactly
Exactly What
Existence
Fiction
Force
Gender
Human
Human Existence
Intimacy
Know
Mean
Messy
Moments
Much
Offers
Race
Reader
Those
Us
Writer
You
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What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
~ Will Self
Animal
Chilling
Condition
Dumb
Indictment
Modern
Modern World
More
Than
User
World
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What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.
~ Will Self
Because
British
Facts
Feeling
Help
Historians
Intellectuals
Life
Like
Narrative
Other
Playing
Prominent
Public
Public Life
Resistance
Role
Seem
Supplies
Television
Theory
Too
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Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
~ Will Self
Deserved
May
Now
Once
Own
Photography
Respect
Superfluous
View
Whatever
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When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
~ Will Self
Any
Anyone
Approval
Cannot
Creative
Creative Life
Criticism
Destroyed
Give
Go
Inclined
Learn
Least
Life
Little
More
Often
Out
Seek
Seems
Something
Starts
Sustained
Than
Those
Unusual
You
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Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?
~ Will Self
English-Speaking
Modernist
Want
World
Writer
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With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
~ Will Self
Also
Anxiety
Apprehend
Available
Become
Begun
Constantly
Error
Events
Functions
Human
Human Error
May
More
Mortality
Much
Natural
Natural Phenomena
Need
Our
Phenomena
Reminded
Spectacular
Taking
Them
Threats
Ubiquitous
Up
While
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Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.
~ Will Self
Crap
Doubt
Most
Public
Shadow
Spaces
Square
Urban
Without
World
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You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
~ Will Self
Above
Actually
Always
Because
Become
Carry
Detailed
Even
Faces
Field
Force
Front
Frozen
Like
Mediocrity
Notoriety
Persona
Personality
Reach
Ready
Some
Sort
Spot
Talent
Television
Them
You
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You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.
~ Will Self
Accompanied
Acquired
Asleep
Bad
Bad One
Compelled
Due
Fall
Feel
Forecast
Frail
Goes
Good
Good Night
Here
I Feel
Know
Listening
Midnight
Need
Night
Off
Psyche
Push
Radio
Shipping
Some
Waters
You
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You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.
~ Will Self
Always
Am
Any
Believe
Cheerful
Death
Gathered
I Am
May
Me
Most
Party
Some
You
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