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Skagboys (Mark Renton Series Book 1) by Irvine Welsh

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Well, faint hert never won fit bird,

“Life is passing all the ignorant are believing; but it is passing, to again be newly arriving. Time, a chain of days, nights... nothing else: name for breathing in and out, nothing else! And, what is this wave of breath? A sword! What is Self? The sharp edge of the sword! What is the Self? Life’s innermost mystery! It is the whole of creation waking up, to see! Self’s drunk upon others but enjoys solitude, it is the ocean that a drop all it does include.”
― Muhammad Iqbal, Iqbal: Selected Poetry

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“I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil’s attorney.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Best of Thoreau: Walden and Civil Disobedience

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“Mel hilariously tries tae look a bit demure, but ah clock her shootin Bobby the glance a closing-time drunk gies a fish supper.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

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“I have always felt to be true: that the greatest achievement in life is to work out the terms of one’s own salvation, however one may define that term. “Free to make mistakes and be the master of one’s own destiny,”
― Fenton Johnson, At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life

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“But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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