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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

Irvine Welsh
Needs, Stuff, Realism
"Alan Black Interviews Irvine Welsh for 3AM". 3:AM Magazine, 2004.

Thir must be less tae life than this

Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.249, Random House

That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

Irvine Welsh
Pain, Coffee, Class
Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.

Irvine Welsh
Dream, Quality, Broadway

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Irvine Welsh
Music, House, Way

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Irvine Welsh
Memories, Blow, Past
Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.86, Random House

Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

Irvine Welsh
Stupid, Silly, Men
Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

Irvine Welsh
Vegetarianism, Addiction, Links

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 could embarrass. That could hurt.

Irvine Welsh
Hurt, Love You, Two
Irvine Welsh (2008). “Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance”, p.56, Random House

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

Irvine Welsh
Jobs, Class, People
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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