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“Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books

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“I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books

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“But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books

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“Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in Four Books

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“Every stylistic excess and moral defect which critics conspired to ignore in the author's first books, LANARK and UNLIKELY STORIES, MOSTLY, is to be found here in concentrated form.”
― Alasdair Gray, 1982, Janine

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