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Alasdair Gray quotes: Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.

Alasdair Gray quotes: I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

Alasdair Gray quotes: The world is only improved by people who do ordinary jobs and refuse to be bullied.

The world is only improved by people who do ordinary jobs and refuse to be bullied.

Alasdair Gray quotes: Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Alasdair Gray quotes: She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Alasdair Gray quotes: You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

Alasdair Gray quotes: Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me.""That's typical of life, isn't it?

Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me."
"That's typical of life, isn't it?

Alasdair Gray quotes: But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.

But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.

Alasdair Gray quotes: I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

Alasdair Gray quotes: Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

Alasdair Gray quotes: Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly.

Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly.

Alasdair Gray quotes: I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

Alasdair Gray quotes: The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.

The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.

Alasdair Gray quotes: Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Alasdair Gray quotes: People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

Alasdair Gray quotes: Tell me, Dr. Lanark, is there a connection between your love of vast panorama and your distate for human problems?

Tell me, Dr. Lanark, is there a connection between your love of vast panorama and your distate for human problems?

Alasdair Gray quotes: I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

Alasdair Gray quotes: Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

Alasdair Gray quotes: She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.

She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.

Alasdair Gray quotes: One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

Alasdair Gray quotes: Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.