List of Will Self Quotes

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Will Self
Total Quotes 127
We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. all text will be electronic. i accept that fact. my house has thousands of books in it, and i've started to look at them completely differently. they now seem to me to be like antiquarian objects. their use value has become negligible to me because i'm perfectly happy to read on an e-reader.
Book House Important
I used to find myself goofed out in the street on drugs. and i had such a bad problem with addiction at the time that i didn't mind. i was dealing cocaine and shooting up a lot of cocaine. and that's not a good space to be in.
Space Addiction Drug
Because i was a young man so, of course, i did get into fights. the last time i actually was in a fight, in the sense of throwing punches myself, was probably when i was at college, not since 1980. but i remember being attacked quite a few times in the '80s.
Fighting College Men
I think it's a misreading of dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. he's actually much closer to someone like william james. he's actually a pragmatist.
Thinking Pragmatists Misreading
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
Sports Taken Loss
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.
Race Class Age
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.
Confused Eye Futility Of Life
Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than ritchie's.
Vision Harder Wiser
Drug use and procrastination often go hand in tourniquet.
Procrastination Drug Use Hands
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
Age Hollywood Amusement
If we bought everything on the internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
Morning Eye Mind
Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.
Comfort Crowds Strange
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