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0ed7843
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I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie. I believe in punk rock. In northern soul. In acid house. In mod. In rock and roll. I also believe in pre commercial righteous, rap and hip hop. Tha..
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Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside its mainstream. Suppose that ah ken aw the pros and cons, know that ah'm gaunnae huv a short life, am ah sound mind, ectetera, ectetera, 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 whut they huv tae offer.
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Irvine Welsh |
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f5b3101
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Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.
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e521780
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The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
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greed
tacky
shopping
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c3bbdb7
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Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be. Ah suppose if bringing death and despair is yir life's work, then being somewhere like this must feel like a result; the job's already done and you can just kick back and relax.
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Irvine Welsh |
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b3d5c49
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Perche adesso so che fare le cose non ti ferisce:resti ferito se le eviti.
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294be1d
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So this is how cunts that never shag fuckin well live. A life oy impotence, resentment, anger and frustration; nae fuckin exuberance in life, forced tae become an Internet troll or a miserable drunk in a boozer.
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ddf0959
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Ah'm sittin in the hotel bar waitin oan Fiona. Thinkin aboot her heart-melting smile and that sexy, concentrated frown when she evaluates books and the comments made by lecturers. Whenever she comes into a room, ma spirits soar. What ah feel is delight, pure and simple. Our life is all passionate kisses and soft wells of laughter. Ah love watchin her in class; even though we're shaggin, it's still great tae just look at her.
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b24442a
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Depois de sumir, o melhor e continuar assim; voltar e se rematerializar na loucura alheia.
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Irvine Welsh |
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f56b916
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With the gift of faith, we move on.
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Irvine Welsh |
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1a022f7
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It was Begbie who ensured he could never return. He had done what he wanted to do. He could now never go back to Leith, to Edinburgh, even to Scotland, ever again. There, he could not be anything other than he was. Now, free from them all, for good, he could be what he wanted to be. He'd stand or fall alone. This thought both terrified and excited him as he contemplated life in Amsterdam.
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12de1b1
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You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.
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learning
trainspotting
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2d02866
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Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan.
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7d2c363
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It was cauld. For about a minute the grey sky ferociously split and sunlight burst through, pouring ower the city, reflectin off the glitterin granite. The blood pounded in ma heid, makin me want tae be somewhere else. Then it was away and that heavy cloak ay grey was back oan us.
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e41b773
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Estas jodido?", pregunto. "No lo se. Si te soy sincero, sera el sexo lo que mas echare de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ?sabes?" Tommy necesita a la gente mucho mas que la mayoria."
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68699ab
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Planet Ay The Apes hus insinuated hissel intae the company. The thought ay that cunt shaggin wee Maria Anderson is not aesthetically appealing. The thought ay that cunt shaggin anybody isnae aesthetically appealing. If he tries tae talk tae ma Ma, ah'll gless the fucker's primate pus.
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8ac7411
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Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?
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ad72e46
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asea t`u ise, imdenad dag'lili var, ro egreve vxuchav t`valebs da z'ili t`avs mart`mevs. odnav viz'abebi, roc`a vgrz'nob, ro berikac`i gverdit` momicva, mara maleve vdundebi, radganac` gasusuli cevs da axlos mokarebas arc` ki c`dilobs. t`anac` orive ch`ac`mulebi vcevart`. vgrz'nob, ro avadmqop`ur, ugono z'ilshi viz'irebi. vig'viz'eb. azrze ara var, ramden saat`s mez'ina. piri gamshrali mak`vs, saxeze ki uc`nauri sisvelis shegrz'neba macuxeb..
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95de0f4
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Ah don't really know, Tam, ah jist dinnae. It kinday makes things seem mair real tae us. Life's boring and futile. We start aof wi high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we're aw gaunnae die, withoot really findin oot the big answers. We develop aw they long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality ay oor lives in different weys, withoot really extending oor body ay worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. B..
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a6a8360
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it should be the likes ay us that agitate for change, but aw we dae is drugs.
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Irvine Welsh |
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a38786e
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The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.
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Irvine Welsh |
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3fb5074
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Square go then smart cunt!
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Irvine Welsh |
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a7ec162
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Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh.
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So she's wipin spunk offay her face, gaun aw fuckin panicky, `Whae wis that, wis that ma dad?` `Fuckin durty pervert sneakin up oan cunts like that,` ah goes. So she goes aw that fuckin ice-cauld, frigid, huffey wey, but fuck her, ye need a wee bit ay fuckin romance at Christmas.
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Irvine Welsh |
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b6f9c82
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Jim has a nice life, he considers, but sometimes Frank has a hell of a lot more fun.
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Irvine Welsh |
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1b1a116
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I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.
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trees
heat
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5d34f4d
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Living like this is a full-time business.
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live
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ee2d77e
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He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae about that. The big problem is, he's a mate na aw. Whit kin ye dae?
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truth
junkie
drunk
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356aed6
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y pienso en lo que molaria un Dios asi; uno que odiara a los putos cristianos, a los musulmanes, a los judios y a todos los demas capullos que le tocaran los huevos.
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b523f0d
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We don't really communicate [...]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.
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reflection
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2fe1bde
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I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them
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a834987
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This is from "Marabou Stork Nightmares". Bernard's Poem: Did you see her on the telly the other day good family entertainment the tabloids say But when you're backstage at your new faeces audition you hear the same old shite of your own selfish volition She was never a singer a comic or a dancer I cant say I was sad when I found out she had cancer Great Britain's earthy northern comedy queen takes the rand, understand from the racist Boer r..
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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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fcaecb8
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It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
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very-true
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Irvine Welsh |
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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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279c896
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Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. 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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moving-on
counselling
moving-on-and-letting-go
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304c67d
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Everything is muffled and car-crash-like and I want to speak but she's looking through me and I'm looking through alcohol. We're nowhere near each other even as we stumble in tandem through our disintegrating lives.
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Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?
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politics
scotland
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aadae0e
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Thing is, as ye git aulder, this character-deficiency gig becomes mair sapping. Thir wis a time ah used tae say tae aw the teachers, bosses, dole punters, poll-tax guys, magistrates, when they telt me ah was deficient:'Hi, cool it, gadge, ah'm jist me, jist intae a different sort ay gig fae youse but, ken?' Now though, ah've goat tae concede thit mibee they cats had it sussed. Ye take a healthier slapping the aulder ye git. The blows hit ha..
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02f4d14
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But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.
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Irvine Welsh |
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8bcf806
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A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxury for the rich and a social ball and chain for the rest of us. Even if I wanted one, which I certainly do not, I wouldn't have the faintest idea as how to go about getting one.
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571572d
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High cunts are a big fuckin drag when yir feeling like this, because thir too busy enjoying their high tae notice or gie a fuck about your suffering. Whereas the piss-held in the pub wants every cunt tae git as ootay it as he is, the real junky (as opposed tae the casual user who wants a partner-in-crime) doesnae gie a fuck aboot anybody else.
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junkie
observations
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Irvine Welsh |
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4dfecaa
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This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab.
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humanity
humor
jobs
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Irvine Welsh |
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aac02fd
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I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them
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sex
trainspotting
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Irvine Welsh |