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Irvine Welsh

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Scottish writer

United KingdomWritersBorn 1958 · age 67
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Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.

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Irvine Welsh
said · 2004
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You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

"Alan Black Interviews Irvine Welsh for 3AM", 3:AM Magazine (2004).

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Irvine Welsh
said · 1994
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Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.

A conversation between plumbers.

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Irvine Welsh
said · 1994
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Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

The narrator talking about Ange after they are released from prison.

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Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known for their gritty depictions of working-class life and its intricacies; particularly drug addiction, social alienation, lack of opportunity and boredom, amongst others.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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living
Dates
Born 1958 · age 67
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