"The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'."

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Source : Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.292, Hachette UK

Sebastian Horsley

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“When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.”
“Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a cafÃ© somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.”
“We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.”
“Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
“And few hookups, if any, ever take place sober. And while wearing "beer goggles" may make people appear more attractive, it doesn't exactly make for sexual ecstasy! There's always been a difference between pleasure and scoring.”

Source : "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.
“I am an artsy girl. It's no secret that I am artsy, you know.”

Source : Interview with Teena Apeles, www.askmen.com.
“I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.”
“Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.”

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