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It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

Irvine Welsh

It seems to go beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

Tags: trainspotting

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Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

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Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

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Me contó un montón de cosas que yo no quería oír, cosas que mi madre y mi padre nunca supieron, y que odiarían saber. Lo cabrón que era Billy con ella. Cómo en ocasiones la golpeaba, la humillaba, y l...

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Me contó un montón de cosas que yo no quería oír, cosas que mi madre y mi padre nunca supieron, y que odiarían saber. Lo cabrón que era Billy con ella. Cómo en ocasiones la golpeaba, la humillaba, y l...

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I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.

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I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.

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I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them

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I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them

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We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclozine, codeine, temazepam, nitrezepam, phenobarbitone, sodium amytal dextropropoxyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine, buprenorphine, dextromoramide...

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You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

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You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.

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Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

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Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

Tags: trainspotting

This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

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This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.

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Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry aboot is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboot loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too much. Cannae git a burd, nae chance ay a ride. Git a...

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Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry aboot is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboot loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too much. Cannae git a burd, nae chance ay a ride. Git a...

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This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam … that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite...

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This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam … that poison is diluted by the sea, but once the ocean rolls out, it leaves the shite...

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About Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. His 1993 novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.