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Уи́лл Селф — британский журналист и писатель. Работает в жанре жёсткой сатиры, для большинства его книг характерно гротескное видение современного мира. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Сентябрь 1961
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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.”

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Will Self

“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.”

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Will Self

Источник: Dorian

“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.”

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Will Self

“I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.”

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Quoted by The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-164,00.html

“So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.”

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Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, April 1997. http://web.archive.org/web/19970429201840/http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/news/0419/brief.htm

“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy than connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply…the person who wants to read what I have written.”

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The Guardian, May 9, 2007. http://books.guardian.co.uk/whyiwrite/story/0,,2075745,00.html#article_continue

“I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.”

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The Guardian, May 9, 2007. http://books.guardian.co.uk/whyiwrite/story/0,,2075745,00.html#article_continue

“The éminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.”

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Will Self

The Independent on Sunday, August 8, 1999
Of the Queen Mother.

“Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power - therefore you have too much responsibility - and you're a kind of dictator.”

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The Moral Maze, BBC Radio 4, October 1st, 2008.

“Things are only boring if you are boring.”

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'Room 101', BBC2, March 19th, 2001.