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Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.
Irvine Welsh
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Irvine Welsh
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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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.
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I can't stand still I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.
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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.
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Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
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I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.
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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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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.
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I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.
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