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“The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.”

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Scottish novelist known for his novel 'Trainspotting', which depicted the drug culture in Edinburgh, Scotland. Welsh's works are characterized by a realistic style and delve into social issues. more

“In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all this social conditioning, but there is a point where you do have to make a choice, and that's the optimist in me: you have the freedom to make a choice about how you are going to be, and what you're going to do.”

Choices Social Realizing Crosses Over You Optimist Inheritance Conditioning

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.”

Thinking Knows Want Guy Obsessed Shopping

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“Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so precarious. Even salaried people in the West now feel this sense of being trapped, not having the freedom to strike out.”

People Feels Jobs Social Class Middle West Strikes Middle Class Occupation Trapped Good Job Embarrassment Precarious Pitfalls

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“You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.”

Firsts States Social Parent Generations Happened Massive Repercussions

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“Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.”

People Animal West Consumers

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