"There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society."

-- Irvine Welsh

#Edinburgh Quotes #Literature Quotes #London Quotes

“I feel like if you compare yourself to other successful musicians you will never be successful, because there will always be someone above you who has done something more or done something first or done something better.”
“To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.”
“If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.”
“I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight”
“Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.”
“The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.”
“But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.”
“You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.”

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