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With the gift of faith, we move on. — Irvine Welsh

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. — Irvine Welsh

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. — Irvine Welsh

There is a kind of mysticism to writing. — Irvine Welsh

Drugs are always fun. — Irvine Welsh

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. — Irvine Welsh

His mind was like a cruel prison, giving his captive soul a sight of freedom, but no more — Irvine Welsh

Even evil bastards like Frank Begbie probabably attained an angelic innocence when they were out for the count. — Irvine Welsh

Thir must be less tae life than this. — Irvine Welsh

-The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. — Irvine Welsh

But ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up. — Irvine Welsh

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

Her mum thought gourmet cooking was putting a load of fish fingers under the grill instead of in the frying pan. — Irvine Welsh

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. — Irvine Welsh

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. — Irvine Welsh

Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace — Irvine Welsh

But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment. — Irvine Welsh

... if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw. — Irvine Welsh

If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world. — Irvine Welsh

There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken? — Irvine Welsh

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. — Irvine Welsh

It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know... — Irvine Welsh

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith. — Irvine Welsh

Square go then smart cunt! — Irvine Welsh

How did it make you feel? — Irvine Welsh

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

Living like this is a full-time business. — Irvine Welsh

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait. — Irvine Welsh

-Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick. — Irvine Welsh

The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him — Irvine Welsh

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

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. — Irvine Welsh

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

Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun. — Irvine Welsh

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

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence. — Irvine Welsh

Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked. — Irvine Welsh

I'm not running away, I'm moving on. — Irvine Welsh

Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror. — Irvine Welsh

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs. — Irvine Welsh

This is a bit like being accused of shagging the sister ah don't have. — Irvine Welsh

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. — Irvine Welsh

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

...that fucker defines cuntishness. — Irvine Welsh

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

No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses. — Irvine Welsh

What worries me is the professionalism of everything. — Irvine Welsh

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

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

Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all! — Irvine Welsh

You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt. — Irvine Welsh

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life. — Irvine Welsh

It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times. — Irvine Welsh

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. — Irvine Welsh

She's quite a nice looking lassie or she wid be if she didnae look shite. — Irvine Welsh

Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything. — Irvine Welsh

The first job of a writer is to be honest. — Irvine Welsh

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

We all see what we want to see. — Irvine Welsh

The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind. — Irvine Welsh

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

You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation. — Irvine Welsh

Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well. — Irvine Welsh

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit. — Irvine Welsh

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

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments. — Irvine Welsh

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

Don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another — Irvine Welsh

Are you asking me or telling me? — Irvine Welsh

How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? — Irvine Welsh

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae. — Irvine Welsh

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance. — Irvine Welsh

She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world — Irvine Welsh

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

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy. — Irvine Welsh

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. — Irvine Welsh

It's easy tae be philosophical when some other cunt's got shite fir blood. — Irvine Welsh

You can't lie to your soul. — Irvine Welsh

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. — Irvine Welsh

Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character. — Irvine Welsh

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties. — Andrew Flintoff

[...] 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

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. — Irvine Welsh

Everything in the street today seems soft focus. — Irvine Welsh

Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against. — Irvine Welsh

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

It should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs. — Irvine Welsh

Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien. — Irvine Welsh

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. — Irvine Welsh

adjourn for another beer. We — Irvine Welsh

I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer. — Irvine Welsh

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

Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides. — Irvine Welsh

On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form. — Irvine Welsh