"The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel."

-- Irvine Welsh

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You are such a chick." I widened my eyes in mock surprise. "No way. Are you sure?" Sighing again, he rubbed at the tattoos on his wrist. "Mackenzie was right. You aren't slayer material." Before he had time to register my intentions, I threw a punch. My sore, swollen knuckles slammed into his cheekbone, thrusting his head to the side. Pain shot up my arm, but I bit my tongue to stop a moan. "You were saying?" He popped his jaw, rubbed at the reddening skin-and slowly grinned. "Okay, so now I understand why Cole likes you. You're worse than Kat.”
“I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.”
“I believe that adversity and negativity can be an amazing fuel towards personal success.”
“Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.”

Source : "The World of Music". The Sunday Times, September 4, 1927.
“Should haves lead to death”
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
“I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.”
“Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.”

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