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• I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
• Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but…
• Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
• A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word…
• I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
• But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem…
• Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
• Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits,…
• No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing…
• Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them…
• I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk…
• Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

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