"I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me."

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Will Self

#Writing Quotes #Waking Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.”
“Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.”
“Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.”
“If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood.”
“I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.”
“You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.”
“The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

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