Irvine Welsh Quotes
'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
Quotes to Explore
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Black is not a color.
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Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
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We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
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Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?
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Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
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The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
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Undoubtedly I had lost time in balking at scales, arpeggios. ... There is an advantage in establishing the top story of one's constructions first: One has seen the heights; one knows what one is building for and what must be sustained.
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India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere we are impatient. I am young, and I too have a dream. I dream of an India strong, independent and self-reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world in the service of mankind.
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We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning.
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I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
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Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision.
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'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
