Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

"However, Renton is going through one of his frequent self-analytical phases and this smug complacency soon evaporates. Actually, this woman’s arse isn’t that fat, he reasons. He notes that he is operating his self-deception mechanism again. Part of him believes that he is by far the most attractive person in the bar. The reason for this being that he can always find something hideous in the most gorgeous individual. By focusing on that isolated ugly part, he can then mentally nullify their beauty. On the other hand, his own ugly bits don’t bother him, because he is used to them, and in any case, can’t see them."

"To most people, mescalin is almost completely innocuous. Unlike alcohol, it does not drive the taker into the kind of uninhibited action which results in brawls, crimes of violence and traffic accidents. A man under the influence of mescalin quietly minds his own business. Moreover, the business he minds is an experience of the most enlightening kind, which does not have to be paid for (and this is surely important) by a compensatory hangover."

The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley

rest in peace dear shelly. fly high angel 𝜗𝜚 ⊹ ‧₊˚

“I was cured, all right!”

Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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Play it as it lays, Joan Didion

"Why was she crying, he wanted to know. Because he made her so happy, she said, and for that moment believed it."