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Them Quotes by Irvine Welsh
- Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life
- I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from…
- 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…
- 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.
- He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster