"Choose Life."

Edinburgh, England heroin addict Mark 'Rent-Boy' Renton (Ewan McGregor) gave a "choose life" diatribe (a voice-over), in two parts. In the film's opening, he narrated as he was pursued by security guards. In the film's closing, he confidently walked through London on a sunny day, vowing to live a traditional life:

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f--kin' big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchased in a range of f--kin' fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the f--k you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sittin' on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing f--kin' junk food into your mouth. Choose rottin' away at the end of it all, pissin' your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarassment to the selfish, f--ked-up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Now I've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways. It wasn't a big deal, just a minor betrayal. Or we'd outgrown each other, you know, that sort of thing. But let's face it, I ripped them off-- my so-called mates. But Begbie, I couldn't give a s--t about him. And Sick Boy, well he'd done the same to me, if he'd only thought of it first. And Spud, well okay, I felt sorry for Spud -- he never hurt anybody. So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's gonna change. I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing, and I'm cleanin' up and I'm movin' on, going straight and choosin' life. I'm lookin' forward to it already. I'm gonna be just like you: the job, the family, the f--king big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure-wear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, the day you die.

/Trainspotting (1996, UK)
Screenwriter(s): John Hodge/

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The trees were bare sculpture without their leaves, as Hemingway once said about the winter trees in the Luxumbourg Gardens.

И пусть вращается прекрасный мир.

Цитаты из книги "И пусть вращается прекрасный мир". Колум Маккэнн.:
"Глория как-то сказала Джеслин, что человек в точности знает, откуда он родом, если знает, где хочет быть похоронен."

(Photo: Brian Schulmaat / New York Times)

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После вас.

Полина Санаева:  После вас – Полина Санаева – Блог – Сноб:
Блин, можно умереть в любой момент, и ничего из того, что было тебе дорого, не будет дорого уже никому. Да, есть дети, но и им не надо ничего моего. У них будет свое. Господи, все, что есть в нашей жизни материального – все это такие мелочи, такие смешные и незначительные вещи. Да и сами мы…
Оказалось, что до сих пор у меня была надежда на бессмертие)
А теперь никогда не буду ничего копить, обустраивать и думать о потом. Жизнь невозможно обустроить раз и навсегда, ее можно только продолжать день за днем.
А копить - только впечатления, жить только сейчас - чтобы было что вспомнить, когда уже ничего не будет происходить. Мне показали, что бывает ПОТОМ. Ничего. Просто приходят чужие люди, затаптывают твои следы и варят кофе в твоей турке.
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Цитата дня.

Settle into your body and open your heart.