Hard Quotes by Irvine Welsh

8 Hard quotes by Irvine Welsh

Welsh’s eight terse lines dive into the raw side of struggle, delivering a no‑holds‑barred look at how people confront the harshest parts of life.

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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…

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Historically, men have a hard time getting onboard with feminism, but I think that's changing.

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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

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Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life…

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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

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“Bit it's what bein a hard man is aw aboot; its a journey, a fucking self destructive quest tae find yir limits,…

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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile…

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