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You can't sit around all day with your heroin and listening to Ziggy Pop.
— Trainspotting · 1996
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker rejects spending whole days sitting around with heroin and music. The wording reads as an impatient push against an unchanging routine, with the named activities making the criticism specific. It describes what the speaker thinks cannot continue, without offering a detailed alternative.
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