Irvine Welsh quotes

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist and playwright, best known for his gritty portrayal of contemporary Scottish life. His most famous work, "Trainspotting," was adapted into a highly influential film. He has earned acclaim for his distinctive narrative voice and exploration of social issues. Here are 73 of his quotes:

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence. (Irvine Welsh)
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. View quote
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page. View quote
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Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers. View quote
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I'm working on a screenplay right now for the BBC, but I hope to have the decks cleared soon so I can get into the studio with my pals and put down some more tracks, try to get a strong dance single together. View quote
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. View quote
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything. View quote
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How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? View quote
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Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. View quote
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Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. View quote
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Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather. (Irvine Welsh)
The rhetorical question, the stock-in-trade weapon ay burds and psychos. View quote
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Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them. View quote
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Everything in the street today seems soft focus. View quote
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more. View quote
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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. View quote
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Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know? View quote
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There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved. View quote
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You can't lie to your soul. View quote
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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. View quote
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I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. (Irvine Welsh)
Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done. View quote
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Ah thought that every cunt over twenty was a toss an no worth speakin tae, until ah hit twenty. The mair ah see, the mair ah think ah wis right. After that it's aw ugly compromise, aw timid surrender, progressively until death. View quote
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Ah hate cunts like that. Cunts like Begbie. Cunts that are intae basebaw-batting every fucker that's different; pakis, poofs, n what huv ye. Fuckin failures in a country ay failures. It's nae good blamin it oan the English fir colonising us. Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? The lowest of the fuckin low, tha's what, the scum of the earth. The most wretched, servile, miserable, pathetic trash that was ever shat intae creation. Ah don't hate the English. They just git oan wi the shite thuv goat. Ah hate the Scots. View quote
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By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. View quote
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Irvine Welsh

Occupation: Scottish Novelist
Born: September 27, 1958
Quotes count: 73
Wikipedia: Irvine Welsh

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