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Irvine Welsh quotes: With the gift of faith, we move on. With the gift of faith, we move on.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
Irvine Welsh quotes: There is a kind of mysticism to writing. There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Drugs are always fun. Drugs are always fun.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.
Irvine Welsh quotes: His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more
Irvine Welsh quotes: Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count. Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Thir must be less tae life than this. Thir must be less tae life than this.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster. I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.
Irvine Welsh quotes: -The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled. -The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.
Irvine Welsh quotes: We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet. We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan. Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.
Irvine Welsh quotes: But ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up. But ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.
Irvine Welsh quotes: The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated. The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan. Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
Irvine Welsh quotes: You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
Irvine Welsh quotes: But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment. But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.
Irvine Welsh quotes: ... if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw. ... if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw.
Irvine Welsh quotes: If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world. If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world.
Irvine Welsh quotes: There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken? There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?
Irvine Welsh quotes: Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know... It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...
Irvine Welsh quotes: Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Square go then smart cunt! Square go then smart cunt!
Irvine Welsh quotes: How did it make you feel? How did it make you feel?
Irvine Welsh quotes: Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Living like this is a full-time business. Living like this is a full-time business.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait. Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.
Irvine Welsh quotes: -Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick. -Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick.
Irvine Welsh quotes: The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him
Irvine Welsh quotes: Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up. Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Irvine Welsh quotes: She's quite a nice looking lassie or she wid be if she didnae look shite. She's quite a nice looking lassie or she wid be if she didnae look shite.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity. Mates are a waste of fucking time. They are always ready to drag you down tae their level of social, sexual and intellectual mediocrity.
Irvine Welsh quotes: This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae. This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all! Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all!
Irvine Welsh quotes: How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?
Irvine Welsh quotes: You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt. You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Are you asking me or telling me? Are you asking me or telling me?
Irvine Welsh quotes: ...that fucker defines cuntishness. ...that fucker defines cuntishness.
Irvine Welsh quotes: What worries me is the professionalism of everything. What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times. It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
Irvine Welsh quotes: His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life. His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.
Irvine Welsh quotes: But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even. But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another Don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another
Irvine Welsh quotes: He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae? He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae?
Irvine Welsh quotes: Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything. Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.
Irvine Welsh quotes: When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again. When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.
Irvine Welsh quotes: No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses. No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.
Irvine Welsh quotes: As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance. As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack. Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack.
Irvine Welsh quotes: She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world
Irvine Welsh quotes: His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know. Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy. It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
Irvine Welsh quotes: This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have. This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs. I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.
Irvine Welsh quotes: She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy. She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same
Irvine Welsh quotes: Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading I like the idea of a black sun; like a black hole in space, sucking everything into darkness, where we came from and where we're heading
Irvine Welsh quotes: Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked. Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.
Irvine Welsh quotes: we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures. we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer. I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.
Irvine Welsh quotes: adjourn for another beer. We adjourn for another beer. We
Irvine Welsh quotes: I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides. Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides.
Irvine Welsh quotes: On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form. On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien. Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien.
Irvine Welsh quotes: The first job of a writer is to be honest. The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh quotes: This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out. This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs. It should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
Irvine Welsh quotes: We all see what we want to see. We all see what we want to see.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.
Irvine Welsh quotes: The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind. The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Everything in the street today seems soft focus. Everything in the street today seems soft focus.
Irvine Welsh quotes: No fuckin way: cunt dies when ah fuckin well say eh dies. (Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.) No fuckin way: cunt dies when ah fuckin well say eh dies.
(Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.)
Irvine Welsh quotes: I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
Irvine Welsh quotes: [...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us? [...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us?
Irvine Welsh quotes: Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character. Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
Irvine Welsh quotes: You can't lie to your soul. You can't lie to your soul.
Irvine Welsh quotes: You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation. You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.
Irvine Welsh quotes: It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood. It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood.
Irvine Welsh quotes: No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft. No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun. Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.
Irvine Welsh quotes: A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all. A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well. Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I'm not running away, I'm moving on. I'm not running away, I'm moving on.
Irvine Welsh quotes: I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them
Irvine Welsh quotes: You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit. You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.
Irvine Welsh quotes: Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror. Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.

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