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

— Irvine Welsh , book The Acid House

The narrator talking about Ange after they are released from prison.
"Stoke Newington Blues".
The Acid House (1994)

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Scottish novelist 1958

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