"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation."

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Source : Alasdair Gray (2010). “Unlikely Stories, Mostly”, p.282, Canongate Books

Alasdair Gray

“A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.”
“I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably”
“Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.”

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“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
“In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.”
“Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.”
“It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.”
“Everything's coming up roses - for me.”

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