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IRVINE WELSH The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe... IRVINE WELSH That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, ... IRVINE WELSH Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror. IRVINE WELSH Are you asking me or telling me? IRVINE WELSH Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in... IRVINE WELSH How did it make you feel? IRVINE WELSH All I can think about is that boy’s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it was... IRVINE WELSH Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what el... IRVINE WELSH I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. IRVINE WELSH Same rules apply. IRVINE WELSH You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. IRVINE WELSH Id always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went t... IRVINE WELSH Bob and Katherine Devlin have been tremendously supportive, donating space and time for one of their... MEL WELSH We wanted to finish off well. I'm just amazed by how much fight we had at the end of the week. I don... MATT WELSH Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough IRVINE WELSH They come by and they have fun. We're going to be hosting some parties here and we'll be having even... PAUL WELSH There are already three or four of these companies in the Denver area, but we're really the first of... TIM WELSH Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoos... IRVINE WELSH Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside... IRVINE WELSH One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. THOMAS CARLYLE To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in t... ROBERT CARLYLE Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, a... THOMAS CARLYLE Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. THOMAS CARLYLE On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is
unworthy a religious man to view ... THOMAS CARLYLE His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais,
a great Perhaps. THOMAS CARLYLE Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the con... THOMAS CARLYLE The eye sees what it brings the power to see. THOMAS CARLYLE Violence does even justice unjustly. THOMAS CARLYLE Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, ... THOMAS CARLYLE The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. THOMAS CARLYLE Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, o... THOMAS CARLYLE What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product
of History; of which, therefore, R... THOMAS CARLYLE For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light. THOMAS CARLYLE