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A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and...

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To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...

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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...

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He has cat blood, I reflected sourly, no doubt that was how he managed to sneak up on me in the dark...

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For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could...

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That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a...

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Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's ba...

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Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a d...

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When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been gr...

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John MuirThe Story of My Boyhood and Youth

The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling ab...

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Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the...

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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-c...

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We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slove...

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Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies t...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

O Caledonia! stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Lan...

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However she redefined herself, that part of one that made for the core of the self, that part that w...

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But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining an...

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