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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh
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Irvine Welsh
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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