Irvine Welsh Quotes - Page 4

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• The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture flourished.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Boys, Sick

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start to redistribute the cake more evenly, and give people opportunities? That's as much about poor white people in West Virginia as it is about poor black people on the Southside of Chicago.

  Irvine Welsh

  Opportunity, Virginia, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, War, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Korean, Scots

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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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• There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

  Irvine Welsh

  Reality, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

  Irvine Welsh

  Giving Up, Democracy, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Wings, Rising

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

  Irvine Welsh

  Getting Older, Reader, Getting Old

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

  Irvine Welsh

  Trainspotting, Levels, Stuff

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Careers, Ideas

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

  Irvine Welsh

  Party, Thinking, Scotland

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

  Irvine Welsh

  Strong, Party, Ukip

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

  Irvine Welsh

  Issues, People, Controversial

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel uncomfortable. I think if you're starting to feel uncomfortable with something when you're writing it, that's the reason really to push on with it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised people back into the political system that if he didn't win, the disillusionment in America and the idea of more of the same failed policies of the last eight years [2000-2008], internationally and domestically, would be so bad for the country and the world as a whole.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Hats, Kind

  Source: thequietus.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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Ambition, People

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to breathe and breed on this earth, so we replace ourselves with androids that can do. The androids can go up into space and take the future of humanity forward because maybe we just bow out with a carbon-based epoch.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Space, Humanity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Irvine Welsh

  Phones, Answering The Phone, Locks

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're supposed to be against ISIS, so why are we trying to slowly introduce a country-club version of Sharia law in America, you know? It doesn't make any real sense at all. I think there's going to be a lot of energy, there is already a lot of reaction against that - people are prepared to really stand up and be counted for democracy, and in the process to find out what is and what isn't.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Nice, Book, People

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

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• As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at some point, a democracy, because people eventually will realize what's going on. You can only bulls - t people through kinds of media outlets for so long, and eventually you have to physically control them.

  Irvine Welsh

  Media, Long, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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