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Irvine Welsh Quote: “I prefer Tender Is the Night, though’, and as I spoke, I got a raw jolt in my chest that could only br described as tender, as an image of Fiona, on the Bosphorus ferry, under a lambent soak of light, sweeping her hair out of her face, flickered in my brain. Even wasted she looked so poised and dignified. I loved her I loved her I loved her I wanted to melt into her bones. Her absence now felt like I’d been eaten from the inside.”

151. “I prefer Tender Is the Night, though’, and as I spoke, I got a raw jolt in my chest that could only br described as tender, as an image of Fiona, on the Bosphorus ferry, under a lambent soak of light, sweeping her hair out of her face, flickered in my brain. Even wasted she looked so poised and dignified. I loved her I loved her I loved her I wanted to melt into her bones. Her absence now felt like I’d been eaten from the inside.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “Ah’m thinking about shoutin ‘stop’ but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah’m already aw the junky ah’m ever gaunny be.”

152. “Ah’m thinking about shoutin ‘stop’ but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah’m already aw the junky ah’m ever gaunny be.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “Politics shouldn’t be what it has exclusively become: a pastime for bored, rich, narcissistic sociopaths, useless for any other kind of employment and hardwired only to syphon off the resources of a community into the pockets of their elite sponsors.”

153. “Politics shouldn’t be what it has exclusively become: a pastime for bored, rich, narcissistic sociopaths, useless for any other kind of employment and hardwired only to syphon off the resources of a community into the pockets of their elite sponsors.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “You’re nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men’s trousers.”

154. “You’re nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men’s trousers.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “Basically, particularly in Britain, it’s a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.”

155. “Basically, particularly in Britain, it’s a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.”

156. “The trick was to consume as quickly as possible; in doing it this way there was a sense that the body could be cheated.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “The vandalism time perpetuates on the human body.”

157. “The vandalism time perpetuates on the human body.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “I only care about me and about why I don’t care about anybody else.”

158. “I only care about me and about why I don’t care about anybody else.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “As difficult it is tae conceive ay it at the moment, ah may yet find other uses for the organ, besides pishing.”

159. “As difficult it is tae conceive ay it at the moment, ah may yet find other uses for the organ, besides pishing.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “What had come from that? All this? Surely not? Life had to be more than a series of unsolvable mysteries. Surely we were entitled to some fuckin answers.”

160. “What had come from that? All this? Surely not? Life had to be more than a series of unsolvable mysteries. Surely we were entitled to some fuckin answers.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “I’m not down with guns. Jails and morgues are full of feeble clowns who thought that carrying a firearm would compel folks to take them seriously.”

161. “I’m not down with guns. Jails and morgues are full of feeble clowns who thought that carrying a firearm would compel folks to take them seriously.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “Age makes most girls into women, but men never really stop being boys.”

162. “Age makes most girls into women, but men never really stop being boys.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “Nobody likes bullies. Even other bullies – often especially – feel obliged to at least profess a hatred of them. Yet we’ve all been bullied and bullied others. It’s in all of us, with nations we call it imperialism. You start to wonder about yourself.”

163. “Nobody likes bullies. Even other bullies – often especially – feel obliged to at least profess a hatred of them. Yet we’ve all been bullied and bullied others. It’s in all of us, with nations we call it imperialism. You start to wonder about yourself.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “People come to this place for one reason, and one reason only. However, the night is still relatively young, and the camouflage of drinking, talking and listening to music does not, at this point, seem too obvious.”

164. “People come to this place for one reason, and one reason only. However, the night is still relatively young, and the camouflage of drinking, talking and listening to music does not, at this point, seem too obvious.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “But he knows enough about the wealthy to realise that they seldom consider their own behaviour as actually or even potentially criminal. They’ve been compartmentalised all their lives; boarding school and university, home, trips during holidays. They are conditioned into thinking of themselves as operating in, and inhabiting, closed, secret institutions, where what they do is private and not the concern of society at large.”

165. “But he knows enough about the wealthy to realise that they seldom consider their own behaviour as actually or even potentially criminal. They’ve been compartmentalised all their lives; boarding school and university, home, trips during holidays. They are conditioned into thinking of themselves as operating in, and inhabiting, closed, secret institutions, where what they do is private and not the concern of society at large.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “You never know if he’s being ironic or dyslexic.”

166. “You never know if he’s being ironic or dyslexic.”

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Irvine Welsh Quote: “Sundown, and the bellies of the clouds flush pink. Renton reflecting that no matter how early you rise or how late you turn in, you never see that point where light begins or the first bruise of darkness bleeds in under its fragile skin; the beauty, and the scary, unfathomable wisdom of transition.”

167. “Sundown, and the bellies of the clouds flush pink. Renton reflecting that no matter how early you rise or how late you turn in, you never see that point where light begins or the first bruise of darkness bleeds in under its fragile skin; the beauty, and the scary, unfathomable wisdom of transition.”

— Irvine Welsh

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