"Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song……" — Alasdair Gray
"Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels."
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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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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
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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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Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing…
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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