PROMPTS FROM TRAINSPOTTING
* assorted dialogue from the 1996 film, adjust as necessary
the truth is that i'm a bad person. but that's gonna change. i'm going to change.
now i'm cleaning up and i'm moving on, going straight and choosing life.
the streets are awash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all.
choose life. choose a job. choose a career. choose a family.
why would i want to do a thing like that?
i chose not to choose life. i chose something else.
the reasons? there are no reasons.
doesn't it make you proud to be scottish?
i've justified this to myself in all sorts of ways.
it wasn't a big deal, just a minor betrayal.
why did i do it? i could offer a million answers, all false.
i'm looking forward to it already.
i'm gonna be just like you.
excuse me. i don't mean to harass you, but i was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation.
i was thinking to myself, now this girl's special.
i'll come back with you if you like, but like, i'm not promising anything, you know.
do you find that this approach usually works?
let me guess, you've never tried it before.
you don't normally approach girls, am i right?
personality, i mean that's what counts, right?
our only response was to keep on going and "fuck everything."
no matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over, you always need to get up and do it all over again.
what are you two talking about?
no more. i'm finished with that shite.
gonna get it right this time. gonna get it sorted out.
i sure have heard that one before.
people think it's all about misery and desperation and death and all that shit which is not to be ignored, but what they forget is the pleasure of it. otherwise we wouldn't do it.
we're not fucking stupid. at least, we're not that fucking stupid.
what's on the menu this evening?
you're not getting any younger. the world's changing. music's changing
the point is, you've got to find something new.
at one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone forever.
what's the point you're trying to make?
so we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. is that it?
what attracts you to the leisure industry?
do you mean that you lied on your application?
it's all about aesthetics and it's fuck all to do with morality.
it seems, however, i really am the luckiest guy in the world.
that's all i've got. take it or leave it.
i quite enjoyed the sound of it all.
for all the good they've done me, i might as well have stuck them up my arse.
for the first time in my adult life i was almost content.
useless motherfucker, that's what she called me.
i'm sorry, but these things happen. let's put it behind us.
you were quite happy to do a lot more last night.
calm down. you're not going to jail.
if you don't see me again, i'll tell the police.
i can't believe you did that.