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While I am not teetotal, a drunk woman I find revolting and Burns orgies detestable.

— Helen Cruickshank Octobiography (1976)

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But where this passionate self will go,
God knows,
Who knows whence the lightning comes, and
whither it goes.

Criticism in Scotland, of books as well as plays, is often bedevilled because we all know each other too well. The clique can cast its chill over its rivals; the claque delude with false praise.

Octobiography (1976)

Sae smoor yersel', my man,
Pit oot yer licht,
Grey hair that's tow
To a lassie's lowe
Is an unco sicht.

I am not asked out to drinking parties and have never been in a Rose Street pub. I can't be a poet.

Octobiography (1976)

They agonise in sordid
tenements,
with children stabled worse than sheep
or kye.
O, how can grace or peace or health abide
such poverty?

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