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ca2218d
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In Scotland we've been exporting every straight cunt tae Canada fir generations. Result? They're boring fuckers, and we're a drug-addled underclass.
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adb649e
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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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chasing-the-dragon
skagboys
heroine
smack
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ed4ad88
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Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there would not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.
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Irvine Welsh |
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90f6014
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The best way ah knew tae strike a chord without compromising too much tae the sickening hypocrisy, perversely peddled as decency, which fills the room, is tae stick tae the cliches.
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Irvine Welsh |
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074c3f4
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Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one you attack.
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Irvine Welsh |
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101f5b8
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Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear his voice in your head urging you to eat? Eat, eat eat. Your mother's cries. Do you hear them? You should be Bruce. Because I know that it's never left you alone. Now you can eat what you want to eat. For me, for you, for all the others. Now you can consume to your heart's con..
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tapeworm
parents
eating
food
eat
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0ca85ef
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me doy cuenta de que por lo general la muerte es un proceso, mas que un suceso. Generalmente la gente se muere poco a poco, acumulativamente. Se pudren lentamente en residencias u hospitales, o sitios como este
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Irvine Welsh |
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373fecc
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Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.
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bdaa334
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I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.
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tax
trainspotting
usa
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99cd747
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Analysing novels meant ripping oot their soul and it destroyed my enjoyment of them. Ah couldnae allow masel tae be trained tae thing that way. Only by refusing tae study literature was ah able tae maintain ma passion for it.
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4c52478
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Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboot. Ken Billy, ma brar, likes? He's jist signed up tae go back intae the fuckin army. He's gaun tae fucking Belfast, the stupid cunt. Ah always knew that the fucker wis tapped. Fuckin imperialist lackey. Ken whit the daft cunt turned roond n sais tae us? He goes: Ah cannae fuckin stick civvy street. Bein in the army, it's like being a junky. The only diff..
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ba5fc38
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Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd witnessed it within my own community and decided that it was something I wanted to be part of, I smile.
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Irvine Welsh |
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66eb00c
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As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
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Irvine Welsh |
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f98b4c2
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Everytime ye go to jail, the probability ay ye ever becoming free fae that kind of life decreases. It's the same every time ye go back tae smack. Ye decrease yir chances of ay ever bein able tae dae withoot it.
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Irvine Welsh |
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3104f8b
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How did it make you feel?
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past
reflection
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0686216
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Ye see, Rab, it's due to the way we feel about our arseholes. We now believe, as a species, if our soul is located anywhere in our bodies, it's up our arses. That's where it all goes. It makes sense. That's why we're obsessed with anal jokes, anal sex, anal hobbies... the arsehole - not the brain, not space - is the last frontier. That's what makes us revolutionaries.
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4a44878
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It's a bad one, man. Ah sit thaire jist likes, stunned; feeling aw raw n hollowed oot fae the inside. It's like whin you've been knocked back by a bird ye fancy, no thit that's happened tae me for a long time bein wi Ali likes but, like ye've been intae a lassie for ages, n ye sort go, eh, awright, what aboot, likesay, you n me, likes, eh ... n she goes: naw. No way. Fuck off.
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46fe492
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A surge ay euphoria comes ower me as ah clock that nippy wee cockney cunt, Nicksy; he's on the baw, giein it loads, mouthing off, so ah steam in wi a dirty two-fitted tackle on him. 'Take that, ya English bastard!
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f15d728
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She's so fucking beautiful it don't bear thinking about. I could hardly keep my eyes on the fucking road. I sort of felt like I was wasting time whenever I wasn't looking at her face.
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f733b2d
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They filed out into the cold night at closing time, heading for Begbie's place with a carry-out. They'd already spent twelve hours drinking and pontificating about Matty's life and his motivations. In truth, the more reflective of them realised, all their insights pooled and processed, did little to illuminate the cruel puzzle of it all. They were no wiser now than at the start.
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1bbc405
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No pasa nada..., se pondra bien..., saben lo que hacen..., se pondra bien.>> Y se que no es cierto, pero abrazo a Janey y pienso en lo mucho que puede llegar a cambiar una vida en lo que tarda uno en meterse un pico.
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8b36cfd
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History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith.
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parenting
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264303f
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Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye found a dealer whae didnae use. We called Johnny 'Mother Superior' because ay the length ay time he'd hud his habit.
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24d5974
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but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us?
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Irvine Welsh |
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f2a417e
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Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.
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Irvine Welsh |
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ac1c8ce
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Basari ve basarisizlik arzunun tatmin edilmesi ya da icinde kalmasi anlamina gelir. Arzu ya kisisel durtulerimize bagli olarak baskin bir bicimde icseldir, ya da esasen reklamlarla veya medyanin ve populer kulturun sundugu rol modelleriyle uyarilmis bir bicimde, dissal. Tom benim basari ve basarisizlik kavramlarimin toplumsal duzeyden cok kisisel duzeyde gecerli oldugu gorusunde. Toplumsal odulu kabul etmedigim icin basari (ve basarisizlik)..
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e9c8193
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Yo me hago dano y me saboteo a mi mismo para no hacer dano a nadie que no se lo merezca.
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bfa9827
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we need tits and arse because they have got to be available to us; to be pawed, fucked, wanked over. Because we're men? No. Because we're consumers. Because those are things we like, things we intrinsically feel or have been conned into believing will give us value, release satisfaction. We value them so we need to at least have the illusion of their availability. For tits and arse read coke, crisps, speedboats, cars, houses, computers, des..
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3947916
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But I really thought that me and her had something. Then I thought about how a lot of people, black and white don't like the idea of a white geezer and a black bird getting it on. One day it won't matter a fuck, we'll all be coffee-coloured with a tint of yellow. Till then we got a load of grief tae get through.
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8c95263
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Si por mi fuera, pillaria todos los libros que hay, haria una pila enorme con ellos y los quemaria todos. Los libros solo sirven para que los listos farden acerca de toda la mierda que han leido. Todo lo que necesitas saber lo puedes sacar de la prensa y de la tele. Capullos pretenciosos. Ya les dare yo jodidos libros.
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d9a0759
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Everybody talks about being a writer, angel. If every novel conceived on a bar stool made it into print, there wood not be one tree left standing on God's green Earth.
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d3ef653
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Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
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c6d8d90
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N it's fuckin well beyond violence, it's beyond even sexual; it's a kind ay love, a fuckin bizarre, vain-glorious self-adoration, way past the fuckin ego even. Ah'm findin somethin...ah'm...but it's what bein a hard man is aboot; it's a journey, a fuckin self-destructive quest tae find yir limits, cause they fuckin limits eywis come in the form ay a harder man. A big, stong, stiff-hard man whae can dae it for ye, whae can teach ye, show ye ..
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Irvine Welsh |
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00f4b4d
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we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.
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Irvine Welsh |
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e46ecd6
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Ah realise now thit death is usually a process, rather than an event. People generally die by degrees, incrementally. They rot away slowly in homes and hoespitals, or places like this.
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Irvine Welsh |
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56bebbc
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Ma best mate is possibly Tommy. Cares aboot things, aboot people; maybe just a wee bit too much for the kind ay world we're compelled tae live in.
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3425f68
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but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.
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sick-boy
skagboys
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Irvine Welsh |
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eb32b08
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Drugs are always fun.
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Irvine Welsh |
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4ac480d
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This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam ... that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite behind, inside ma body. It takes as well as gives, it washes away ma endorphins, ma pain resistance centres; they take a long time tae come back.
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Irvine Welsh |
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7ba69f0
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The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded.
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014a01b
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That's the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they're civil tae your face and can put up a good front. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
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Irvine Welsh |
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5e29db2
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Why is it that because ye use hard drugs every cunt feels that they have a right tae dissect and analyse ye? Once ye accept that they huv that right, ye'll join them in the search fir this holy grail, this thing that makes ye tick. Ye'll then defer tae them, allowin yersel tae be conned intae believin any biscuit-ersed theory ay behaviour they choose tae attach tae ye. Then yir theirs, no yir ain; the dependency shifts from the drug to them..
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26f1833
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If every cunt had a ride whin they hud a heidache, thir widnae be as much fuckin trouble in the world.
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f9f2c7b
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Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tea absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken all the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ay sound mind etcetera etcetera, but still want tae use smack? They won't let ye dae it. They won't let ye dae it, because it's seen as a sign ay thir ain failure. The fact that ye jist simply choose tae reject whit they huv tae offer. Choo..
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