Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our … - Irvine Welsh

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

Irvine Welsh

Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru. I always thought that if I was to be a hundred, somehow Bowie would be a hundred and fifteen. He'd be there to still steer me and guide me.

Class, Death, Emotional, Somehow, Spiritual, Thing

Same Author Quotes

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.

Confrontational, Free, Needs, Realism, Stuff

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.

Everything, Idea, Ideas, People, Perfect, Writing

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing, omnipresent misery n pain in your mind n body.

Crush, Except, Pain, Real, Senses, Tae

Most people in the West are not politicized. They're the most simplistic consumers - they're animals, basically.

Animal, Animals, Basically, People, Politicized, West

It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.

Beautiful, Leaving, Sea, Shite, Subside