"The dead man is on the trolley and……" — Irvine Welsh
"The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces."
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64 Quotes by Irvine Welsh
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