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Quotes from The Acid House — Irvine Welsh

born 1958 Scotland

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

The Acid House (1994)

Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.

The Acid House (1994)

Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

The Acid House (1994)

There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

The Acid House (1994)

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 ruling class in pain and torment.

The Acid House (1994)

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