"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is……" — Alasdair Gray
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."
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Alasdair Gray
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17 Quotes by Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray has 17 quotes on this site.
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I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
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Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about…
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a…
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I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
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But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These…
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Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
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Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into…
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way…
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Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already…
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I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of…
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Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
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Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing…
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