Irvine Welsh Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  Irvine Welsh

  Summer, Lying, Drug

• Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

  Irvine Welsh

  Psychics, America, Drug

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.96, Random House

• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Real, Somewhere Else

• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Drama, Hands, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Drug, Stopping, Revolution

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Drug, Festivals

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