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Will Self Quotes

I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: September 26, 1961

Topics

Live Age Phone Phone Call Privacy

Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.

Work Technology Focus Late New Tool

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

Anatoly Chubais

Good Process Nothing Will Never

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

Teacher Day College Walking Done Up

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.

Nature Class Race Human Monster

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

Jostein Gaarder

Good Friend Think Write She I Think

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

People Me Enemy Line Shooting Knew

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Man Mentor Country Living Asian

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

God Evil World Impossible Problem

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.

Work Family Marriage Women Together

Well, there's two things that happen when people experience something, whether it's a song, a television show, a film, a book or any piece of art. It connects them to a certain part of their life and whatever was going on at that time in their life.

Life Time Art Experience People Two

I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.

Life Mother Best My Life Perfect

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Maria Edgeworth

Person Tell Worse Fact Plain Orator

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