But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.


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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, ...
IRVINE WELSH
I think he's been very helpful to the divers helping them with technique, almost like a coach. Scott...
TIM WELSH
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometim...
IRVINE WELSH
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
IRVINE WELSH
We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think...
IRVINE WELSH
I remember, back when I was running one of the trucks, you'd have one or two stocked each year. I st...
CLYDE WELSH
Some years it's more, some year's it's less.
CLYDE WELSH
We've had them up to eight and nine pounds. But they were eight to nine years old, too. Normal brown...
CLYDE WELSH
We hit the ball, but then we kicked it around. Right now, we're up and down, hopefully this will get...
GEORGE WELSH
This is one of the toughest districts in the state I think. It's gonna be a horse race.
GEORGE WELSH
We're very young. I think our pitchers are gonna be pretty good, if our defense can stay strong I th...
GEORGE WELSH
Clell, Gillman and I are joined by the wee chinky bird with the toff's English-Yank accent. It keeps...
IRVINE WELSH
Le regole son quelle.
IRVINE WELSH
As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
IRVINE WELSH
Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd w...
IRVINE WELSH
The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want...
IRVINE WELSH
The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe...
IRVINE WELSH
That’s the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, ...
IRVINE WELSH
Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
IRVINE WELSH
Are you asking me or telling me?
IRVINE WELSH
Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...
IRVINE WELSH
How did it make you feel?
IRVINE WELSH
All I can think about is that boy’s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it was...
IRVINE WELSH
Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what el...
IRVINE WELSH
I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.
IRVINE WELSH
Same rules apply.
IRVINE WELSH
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
IRVINE WELSH
I’d always done a lot of (sniffing) glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went t...
IRVINE WELSH
Bob and Katherine Devlin have been tremendously supportive, donating space and time for one of their...
MEL WELSH
We wanted to finish off well. I'm just amazed by how much fight we had at the end of the week. I don...
MATT WELSH
Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough
IRVINE WELSH
They come by and they have fun. We're going to be hosting some parties here and we'll be having even...
PAUL WELSH
There are already three or four of these companies in the Denver area, but we're really the first of...
TIM WELSH
Two choices; one: tough it oot, back in the room, two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoos...
IRVINE WELSH
Society invents a spurious convoluted logic tae absorb and change people whae's behaviour is outside...
IRVINE WELSH
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE
To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in t...
ROBERT CARLYLE
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, a...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
THOMAS CARLYLE
On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view ...
THOMAS CARLYLE
His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the con...
THOMAS CARLYLE
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Violence does even justice unjustly.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, ...
THOMAS CARLYLE
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, o...
THOMAS CARLYLE
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, R...
THOMAS CARLYLE
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
THOMAS CARLYLE