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“If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.”

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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

“Chicago is seen as everything that Trump detests, which I think kind of reflects really well on the city I think, because it's a mark of what a classy, cool, sort of place it is. You can't tame everyone in America, as much as these people would like to, into some kind of small-town, Southern community.”

People Thinking Wells Kind America Community Cities Trump Mark Towns Chicago Southern Small Town

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop.”

Helping Shops Help Me Stylist

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“People go to the big urban centres because they have a quality of life, a quality of intellectual inquiry in the big urban centres that you don't necessarily have in smaller, rural communities. I've got loads of friends and relatives that live there. People like living there, bringing up their kids there and all that stuff, but it'd be the death of me. I couldn't be in a small town, ten minutes I'd enjoy it, and then I'd get fed up because you're so constrained and constricted by it.”

People Bigs Kids Stuff Enjoy Community Quality Minutes Ten Intellectual Towns Feds Load Urban Centre Inquiry Small Town Quality Of Life Fed Up Rural Communities

Author:Irvine Welsh

“The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.”

“We have to concentrate back on: Where is the money going? Where's it been going for the last thirty years? How do we start to redistribute the cake more evenly, and give people opportunities? That's as much about poor white people in West Virginia as it is about poor black people on the Southside of Chicago.”

People Giving Years Lasts Opportunity Black White Poor West Thirty Chicago Cake Black People Virginia Thirty Years West Virginia

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.”

People Thinking Happens Law Culture Fighting Left Trouble Serious Gun Embrace Tired Gun Law Gun Culture Tired Of Fighting

Author:Irvine Welsh

“Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.”

Want Giving Democracy Giving Up Regimes Efficient

Author:Irvine Welsh

“If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at some point, a democracy, because people eventually will realize what's going on. You can only bulls - t people through kinds of media outlets for so long, and eventually you have to physically control them.”

People Ifs Kind Long Realizing Wealth Democracy Media Planets Amount Population Outlets Bulls Transfers Small Amounts

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I think that in the future, as more and more money and wealth goes to the 1 per cent, it's going to polarize into the people who are for and anti-freedom. It's not that they'll have a left and a right wing thing, it's going to be a freedom and anti-freedom polarization, I think.”

People Thinking Left Wealth Wings Cents More Money Right Wing Polarization

Author:Irvine Welsh

“I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.”

Thinking States Poor Becoming Britain Poorest Scots

Author:Irvine Welsh

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