Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.
Irvine WelshSometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Irvine WelshI'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.
Irvine WelshThe inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.
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