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You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.
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It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't.Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.
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With the gift of faith, we move on.
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It was, as the song said,?call to arms music? and seemed to have little to do with Scotland and New Year. It was fighting music. Stevie did?t want to fight anyone. But it was also beautiful music.
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All I can think about is that bo?s skull, bashed in, the way his head was caved in and how it was?t like a heid at all, just like a broken silly puppet face, about how when you destroy something, when you brutalise it, it always looks warped and disfigured and slightly unreal and unhuman and tha?s what makes it easier for you to go on brutalising it, go on fucking it and hurting it and mashing until yo?ve destroyed it completely, proving that destruction is natural in the human spirit, that nature has devices to enable us to destroy, to make it easier for us; a way of making righteous people who want to act do things without the fear of consequence, a way of making us less than human, as we break the laws . . .
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
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Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.
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don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another
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