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Irvine Welsh
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.
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Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so precarious. Even salaried people in the West now feel this sense of being trapped, not having the freedom to strike out.
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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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If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.
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It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.
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Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.
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It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state, I can make my own choices. But I've got things to look forward to, and places to go and if that'd been me there forty years ago, when I was a young kid in Muirhouse, it might've been a different story.
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Nothing is covered adequately by the BBC. The BBC has become the biggest disappointment - they're just so terrified. And in a way it's not their fault: the parties have used them as a political football.
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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 can control you, and f**k your head up.
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How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?
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If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.
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Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
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How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.
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You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.
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I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people you're close to.
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Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all this social conditioning, but there is a point where you do have to make a choice, and that's the optimist in me: you have the freedom to make a choice about how you are going to be, and what you're going to do.
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The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.
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I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.
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