Irvine Welsh Quotes

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• By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Life, Death, Trainspotting

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.308, Random House

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• I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Moving, Running Away

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• I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

  Irvine Welsh

  Literature, Pages, Blank

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

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Easier

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• The first job of a writer is to be honest.

  Irvine Welsh

  Jobs, Literature, Firsts

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2012

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• We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.

  Irvine Welsh

  Real, Careers, Ideas

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• When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Identity, Lasts, Twenties

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

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  Crush, Eye, Soul

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.117, Random House

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• You can't lie to your soul.

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  Honesty, Lying, Soul

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.363, Random House

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• Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

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  Crush, Pain, Real

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.238, Random House

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• I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Order, Space, People

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'.

  Irvine Welsh

  Weed, Growing Up, Kids

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• Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so precarious. Even salaried people in the West now feel this sense of being trapped, not having the freedom to strike out.

  Irvine Welsh

  Jobs, Class, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hands, Devil, Projects

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn’t believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Believe, Reality, Live Your Life

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• Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

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  Luck, Proximity, Sufferers

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Want

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• The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling drama in their lives that they used to get from the office and the factory, and they're no longer there. What happens if you have everything in the hands of the state, particularly in the line of an authoritarian state, they just give people drugs to keep them doped up, to keep them passive.

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  Drama, Hands, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.

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  Sex, War, Believe

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.483, Random House

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• We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.

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  Robots, World, Androids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.

  Irvine Welsh

  Technology, Government, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

  Irvine Welsh

  Disaster, Grew Up, Grew

  1995 Marabou Stork Nightmares, ch.2.

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• It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.

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  Pain, Book, Reading

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• Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

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  Focus, Today, Streets

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• Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.

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  Animal, People, West

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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