Social Quotes by Irvine Welsh

9 Social quotes by Irvine Welsh

Welsh’s raw, street‑level voice captures the underbelly of social life; these eight lines give a brief, unvarnished taste of his perspective.

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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research…

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In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do…

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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot…

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You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and…

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I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a…

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I think that Europe has to get its act together very quickly. The Belgian guy who's leading the negotiations against Brexit, he…

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Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so…

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In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all…

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We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with…

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“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?”

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If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't…

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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.

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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…

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Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security,…

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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.

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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…

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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…

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