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21 " 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 behind, inside ma body. "
― Irvine Welsh , Trainspotting (Mark Renton #2)
22 " The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she scanned the shelves with greedy eyes. Libraries weren't quite the same, she'd found; something about the prosaic smell of other people's houses and fingers seeping off the pages diluted that sense of magical worlds, but untouched, unread, unexplored books were something else. "
― Lucy Dillon , The Secret of Happy Ever After
23 " My face is set my gait is fast my goal is Heaven my road is narrow my way is rough my companions are few my guide is reliable my mission is clear. I cannot be bought compromised detoured lured away turned back diluted or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice hesitate in the presence of adversity negotiate ... at the table of the enemy ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up shut up let up or slow up. "
24 " I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination. "
