“The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.” WonderfulSeeingCenturyCapacityTwentieth Century Author:Louis Dudek
“I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.” ThinkingLittlesDevelopmentExerciseAlternativesArrestedRetrospect Author:Will Self
“When George VI - displaying a flair for timing that was utterly absent in his lifetime - upped and died, the way was clear for her to inhabit her logical position as the eminence cerise, the bolster behind the throne.” BehindsThrones Author:Will Self
“There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that 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 exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...” WantPersonsIdeasAgeRaceClassWrittenIdentityReaderPagesGenderNakedIntimacyAgencyConnectingThrillingNationalityWritten WordTautology Author:Will Self
“In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.” PossibilityBrotherSavingSisterTibetBrother Sister Author:Richard Gere
“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.” IfsKindFormWealthResponsibilityToo MuchOur SocietyDictatorGreat PowerGreat ResponsibilityToo Much Power Author:Will Self
“I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.” ArtTelevisionArchitectureRestaurantsCakeApologyJaneConceptual Art Author:Will Self
“I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.” PeopleMenSaidDifferentRealSometimesCoursesDrunkShellsSoberAlcoholismReal MenDrunk Man Author:Kingsley Amis
“Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.” CommonCommon SenseMottoPerilMy Motto Book:Stanley And The Women Source: Stanley And The Women