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—
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 Fr… - Alasdair Gray
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 Fr…
- Alasdair Gray
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but … - Alasdair Gray
I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and fight very hard, but …
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. - Alasdair Gray
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
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 experie… - Alasdair Gray
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 experie…
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The s… - Alasdair Gray
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The s…
Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a televis… - Alasdair Gray
Are there many people without illness or disability who sit at home in the evening with clenched fists, continually changing the channel of a televis…
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes o… - Alasdair Gray
You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes o…
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it. - Alasdair Gray
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, nov… - Alasdair Gray
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, nov…
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