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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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