Irvine Welsh Quotes - Page 7

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• Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Dream, Quality, Broadway

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• 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

  Memories, Blow, Past

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.86, Random House

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• When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hurt, Love You, Two

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance”, p.56, Random House

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• Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

  Irvine Welsh

  Vegetarianism, Addiction, Links

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• I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

  Irvine Welsh

  Music, House, Way

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• There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

  Irvine Welsh

  Too Much, Violence, Violent

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.188, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

  Irvine Welsh

  Pain, Coffee, Class

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

  Irvine Welsh

  Needs, Stuff, Realism

  "Alan Black Interviews Irvine Welsh for 3AM". 3:AM Magazine, 2004.

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• Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

  Irvine Welsh

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

  Irvine Welsh

  Jobs, Class, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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