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Scottish Renaissance Quotes

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Michael  Marra
“Whilst wishing to be associated with the current renaissance in Scottish art, I am actually a recessionist and have only joined to see if that's where the real money is.”
Michael Marra

Hugh MacDiarmid
“The [Second World] war may thus have acted as a forcing-bed, bringing to somewhat speedier development what was already securely rooted in the circumstances of our nation; and in this sense it may, perhaps, be said that: "The Scottish Renaissance was conceived in the First World War and sprang into lusty life in the Second World War.
Hugh MacDiarmid, The New Scotland: 17 Chapters on Scottish Reconstruction

Kyrstie Nickles
“My, I could love ya 'til the sun rises, lassie. But I dinnae think it'd ever be enough.”
Kyrstie Nickles, Fire on Fire

Ann Scott-Moncrieff
“Willy - red and shining, his spectacles bemisted, voice glutinous, alcohol sweating from every pore - had sung what he called an old English madrigal in his harsh, thick Scots; at the end he had walloped down, like a porpoise stranded by the tide, on the sofa where Mary sat, and given her a succulent porpoiseful kiss on the nape of the neck. It had been a good turn and everybody had laughed.”
Ann Scott-Moncrieff, Tom Scott / Ann Scott-Moncrieff