“Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.” PeopleKnowsWaySometimesCultureLevelsTypeDeeperBackgroundsSnobbery Author:Irvine Welsh
“Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.” PeopleKnowsJobsStuffClassWorryFiveMiddleSecurityNineLike MeMiddle Class Author:Irvine Welsh
“You've got the whole stuff with transgender toilets and stuff like that - that's no way for a government to behave. We're supposed to be against ISIS, so why are we trying to slowly introduce a country-club version of Sharia law in America, you know? It doesn't make any real sense at all. I think there's going to be a lot of energy, there is already a lot of reaction against that - people are prepared to really stand up and be counted for democracy, and in the process to find out what is and what isn't.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTryingRealCountryWholeGovernmentAmericaLawEnergyStuffProcessDemocracyPreparedClubsReactionsVersionsSupposed To BeBehaveIntroducingToiletsIsisTransgenderShariaCountry ClubsSharia Law Author:Irvine Welsh
“People love talking about their jobs. Take them out, buy them lunch or take them for a beer and they'll talk about their job, provided they know that you're going to respect their anonymity.” PeopleKnowsJobsTalkingBeerLunchAnonymity Author:Irvine Welsh
“You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of the time you'll get stereotyped as crazy, even if you're totally boring thirty percent of the time and just studious the other thirty percent of the time.” PeopleIfsKnowsCrazyBehaviorPercentBoringThirtyFortyStudious Author:Irvine Welsh
“I think of the women I know, and very few of them are obsessed with shopping, or with getting a guy - they want their own thing, they have their own network going on.” ThinkingKnowsWantGuyObsessedShopping Author:Irvine Welsh
“Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.” IfsKnowsMenBitsToo MuchBotheredPerfectionist Book:Trainspotting Source: Trainspotting
“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.” IfsKnowsDreamThreeBitsWalksQualityStrangeMonthsLondonAbsenceFamiliarAliensCopiesUsualLackingBroadwaySeemingThree MonthsFamiliar Places Author:Irvine Welsh
“There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.” KnowsWantMomentsBeautifulSweetConvictionWhat You WantHorribleBitterBeautiful MomentsImpasseBitter SweetPanache Author:Irvine Welsh
“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.” KnowsMenOrderCasesGoneStupidTypeEgoWeakUglySillyVulnerableMessOld ManPreyGod KnowsAlcoholicsShatteredBoostPals Book:Filth Source: Filth
