# The Acid House

- Author: [Irvine Welsh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/irvine-welsh.md)
- Quotes: 7
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/irvine-welsh/the-acid-house

## Quotes

> Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.

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> Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.

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> Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

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> There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

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> That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

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> That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark whin he sais ah wis deid. Ah'm no deid; ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. It's no fir me tae sort every cunt's problems oot. Nae other cunt gies a fuck so how should ah? Eh?

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> The duty sergeant was going through his routine of asking each brawling set of prisoners who the Billy and who the Tim was. If the handshake is right he will let the Billy go and slap the Tim around a bit. That way everybody's happy. The Billy gets to feel superior and delude himself that being a non-churchgoing 'protestant' is somehow important; the Tim gets to feel persecuted and indulge his paranoia about masonic conspiracies; the sergeant gets to slap the Tim around.

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