"It's only now that I realize that behaviour……" — Irvine Welsh
"It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are."
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64 Quotes by Irvine Welsh
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I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I…
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn…
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're…
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
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Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they…
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Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to…
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They…
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More Behaviour Quotes
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I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
— Amy Adams
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There's no map to human behaviour.
— Bjork
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Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping…
— Julie Burchill
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
— Bill Bryson
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I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
— Mariah Carey
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Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
— Deepak Chopra
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
— Emile Durkheim
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak…
— David Lack
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Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself…
— Unknown Author
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Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game…
— A. P. Herbert
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When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises…
— Simon Mainwaring
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