Will Self Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

Andrea Arnold

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I'm born into a family of preachers. So I want Mr. Trump to remember that many people who voted for him took a long time praying for him. And if he can take some of that divine guidance, that's going to help him out.

Alveda King

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It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn't matter because you can do anything.

Simone Biles

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In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

Johnny Rivers

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It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.

Chris Abani

LoveRelationshipMeComplicated

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

Chuck Berry

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Life is so unlike theory.

Anthony Trollope

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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

Peter Doig

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My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

Tyne Daly

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Anglers who see fish exceptionally well can fish successfully in less productive water than anglers who don't. Fishermen love equipment and are always looking for mechanical advantages, but there is nothing to compare with learning to see well; if you see well enough, you can walk out in the mud with no boat and catch fish.

Thomas McGuane

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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Marie Dressler

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I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Kojo Annan

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