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People Quotes by Irvine Welsh
- Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
- Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and…
- I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because…
- It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse.…
- Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than…
- The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to…
- I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my…
- When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That…
- Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.
- When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle