There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad …

Irvine Welsh
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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.
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His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. ✨ Irvine Welsh (2009). T2 Trainspotting, p.117, Random House
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Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life ✨ Irvine Welsh (1995). The Acid House, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
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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.

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