Quotes from book
The Acid House

Name: The Acid House
Author: Irvine Welsh

The Acid House is a 1994 book by Irvine Welsh, later made into a film of the same name. It is a collection of 22 short stories, with each story featuring a new set of characters and scenarios.

“Aye Oedipus, yir a complex fucker right enough”

Irvine Welsh book The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“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)

“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.”

Irvine Welsh book The Acid House

A Smart Cunt: A Novella, "Associates as Opiates" (Chapter 3).
The Acid House (1994)

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

Irvine Welsh book The Acid House

A conversation between plumbers.
"A Blockage in the System".
The Acid House (1994)

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

Irvine Welsh book The Acid House

A Smart Cunt: A Novella, "Marriage" (Chapter 13).
The Acid House (1994)

“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.”

Irvine Welsh book The Acid House

A Smart Cunt: A Novella, "Marriage" (Chapter 13).
Darren and Brian explaining their own notions of anarchy to Avril.
The Acid House (1994)

“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.”

Irvine Welsh book The Acid House

"The Two Philosophers".
The Acid House (1994)

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