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Alasdair Gray has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 nothing but…
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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 new word…
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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 words seem…
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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 Abernethy biscuits,…
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing…
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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 visited them…
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I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk…
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Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
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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 words seem…
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Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.
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There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of…
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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
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I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a…
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Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the wrong words seem to rhyme.
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Even the best fall down sometimes, even the wrong words seem to rhyme out of doubt that fills my mind, I will…
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