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1 " Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite. "
― Irvine Welsh , Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton #5)
2 " 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. "
3 " I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them "
4 " We are nothing but consumers now: of sex, drugs, war, guns, clothes, TV shows. "
5 " You’re nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men’s trousers. "
6 " You never know if he’s being ironic or dyslexic. "
7 " One day this magnificent charge will go, like vision, hearing, continence, and I hope it’s the very last of them to succumb. "
8 " I’ve always enjoyed boyishness, never striven for maturity. Manhood is an ill-fitting cloak on my shoulders, like being dressed by somebody else. "