Quotes by Irvine Welsh

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Novelist · Scottish · 1958

Scottish novelist (born 1958)

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“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the rulin...”
— Irvine Welsh

“Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.”
— Irvine Welsh