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  1. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxury for the rich and a social ball and chain for the rest of us. Even if I wanted one, which I certainly do not, I wouldn't have the faintest idea as how to go about getting one.
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  2. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
    book-quoteshoppinggreedtacky

  3. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    That's the beauty aboot being polis: it doesnae really matter whether or not everybody hates you, as long as they're civil tae your face and can put up a good front. You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
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  4. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    How did it make you feel?
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  5. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.
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  6. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd witnessed it within my own community and decided that it was something I wanted to be part of, I smile.
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  7. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear his voice in your head urging you to eat? Eat, eat eat. Your mother's cries. Do you hear them? You should be Bruce. Because I know that it's never left you alone. Now you can eat what you want to eat. For me, for you, for all the others. Now you can consume to your heart's content or your soul's destruction, whichever comes first. So eat.
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  8. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.
    book-quoteoblivion

  9. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.
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  10. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    Are you asking me or telling me?
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  11. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    Gillman smiles, in the cold manner of an assassin. It's like looking in the mirror.
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  12. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.
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