You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. Irvine Welsh More Quotes by Irvine Welsh More Quotes From Irvine Welsh Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin? Irvine Welsh trainspottingreasonneeds I think, ironically, the media's been good for America, but Trump's been good for the media. He's revitalized The New York Times and CNN - it's never had so much integrity and so much power ever, and that's because being attacked by constant authoritarians and fascists with an agenda has actually got them to sharpen up and to get back to base principles about what the media should actually be. It's also that the circulation boost has removed this horrible, incipient commercial pressure that compromises media. Irvine Welsh new-yorkintegritythinking Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body. Irvine Welsh crushpainreal Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right. Irvine Welsh skin-tonepoliceskins How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete? Irvine Welsh obsoletechoicesdoe 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. Irvine Welsh inspirationwaitingway Are you asking me or telling me? Irvine Welsh asking Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. Irvine Welsh addictionvegetarianismlinks As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well. Irvine Welsh fightinggameswriting 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. Irvine Welsh stupidsillymen 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. Irvine Welsh blowmemoriespast 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. Irvine Welsh drugsummerlying Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it. Irvine Welsh broadwayqualitydream Thir must be less tae life than this Irvine Welsh He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn’t believe that at the time, but now I do. 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. Irvine Welsh live-your-lifebelievereality It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed. Irvine Welsh changed Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for. Irvine Welsh haterealsomewhere-else I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble. Irvine Welsh tiredfightinggun 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. Irvine Welsh doewantbelieve There is a kind of mysticism to writing. Irvine Welsh kindliteraturewriting
