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You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.
— Will Self
Tags: writing, self-criticism, prose, inadequacy, exposure, critical

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Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.
— Will Self
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Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.
— Will Self
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I can't throw anything away. Anything. 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.
— Will Self
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The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.
— Will Self
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Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
— Will Self
Tags: photography, own, view, respect
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