Irvine Welsh Quotes - Page 3

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• It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

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  Behaviour, Realizing, Precedent

  Irvine Welsh (1997). “Marabou Stork Nightmares”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

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  Jesus, Obsession, Just One

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• People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big urban centres that you don't necessarily have in smaller, rural communities. I've got loads of friends and relatives that live there. People like living there, bringing up their kids there and all that stuff, but it'd be the death of me. I couldn't be in a small town, ten minutes I'd enjoy it, and then I'd get fed up because you're so constrained and constricted by it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Kids, People, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

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  Running, Hate, Good Luck

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• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

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  Party, Stories, Literature

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• You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

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  Writing, People, Stuff

  Interview With Veronica Bond, gapersblock.com. October 15, 2008.

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• There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Literature, Kind

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• How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.

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  Political, Belief, Scene

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• 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.

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  Psychics, America, Drug

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

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• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  Irvine Welsh

  Guy, Males, Literature

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• Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.

  Irvine Welsh

  Spiritual, Emotional, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together.

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  Strong, Track, Trying

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• When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Ideas, People

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

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  Writing, Fiction, Literature

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• It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state, I can make my own choices." But I've got things to look forward to, and places to go and if that'd been me there forty years ago, when I was a young kid in Muirhouse, it might've been a different story.

  Irvine Welsh

  Crazy, Kids, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

  Irvine Welsh

  America, Democracy, Principles

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.

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  Sorry, Media, Cheerleader

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• In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

  Irvine Welsh

  Moving, Thinking, America

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

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  Drug, Stopping, Revolution

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Cities, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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.

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  People, Drug, Festivals

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• When I go to places and do book tours, I don't really like doing traditional bookshops. It's nice to walk people through something instead of just standing up in a bookstore.

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  Nice, Book, People

  Interview with Alissa Strother, gapersblock.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

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  Phones, Answering The Phone, Locks

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go out of the country. In a sense, with the power of globalization, you are kind of electing the leader of the Western world to an extent.

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  Country, Ambition, People

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• I think that the Brexit negotiations have to be a big thing that determines the democratic fight-back and galvanizes democratic Europe again against this rising tide of nationalism.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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