… you were better making history than studying it.
— Yuv fucked this one up, ya daft cunt, the man said to him, raising a pint of eighty shillings to his lips.— Eh? What? Boab was surprised again.— You, Boab Coyle. Nae hoose, nae joab, nae burd, nae m...
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
You can't lie to your soul.
Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all!
Fiona, this is my mate, Frank Begbie. Or Franco. Or Beggars. Or the Beggar Boy. Or the Generalissmo. Or Psychotic Bullying Prick.
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to f...
The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him
Ვიღაც კუანა დედაბერი (ეგეთებს, დღის ამ მონაკვეთში, ყოველთვის გადაეყრები ავტობუსებში), მძღოლს ტვინს უჭამს უაზრო შეკითხვებით ავტობუსებზე და მათ მარშრუტებზე. ერთი უნდა წაკუზო და ტყვნაში ამოხადო სული, მაგ...
There's no fear or regret but no elation or sense of triumph either. It's just a job that had to be done.
— C'mon, she says, moving into the darkness. I look into the darkness, but I can't see her, I can only hear her voice. — C'mon, she shouts.— I can't, I shout.— Don't be scared, she says.But I am. I lo...
Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.
The trouble with people like him is that they think that they can brush off people like me. Like I was nothing. They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls cla...
History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you...
— Aye, Charlene's fucked off. She's goat this boyfriend. He's just gittin back oot the jail. Renton taps up a vein in his wrist. — Well that ain't gonna help.— It isnae aboot helping, it's aboot being...
Renton asks the cop: ‘But what did ye say tae get him tae come back inside?’ The officer replies: ‘I just told him that no matter how bad it all seemed right now, it’s just part and parcel of being yo...
He was a very arrogant young man, so full of himself.
Makes nae fucking difference. Rents n Stevie came up fae London for this. If Rents n Stevie kin come up fae fucking London, Sick Boy kin come up fae fuckcing France.Spud's senses were dangerously dull...
A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxur...
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