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Sick Boy

...but personality, that's what counts - that's what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like heroin. I mean, heroin's got fucking great personality.

— Trainspotting ‧ 1996

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A remark about personality sustaining relationships suddenly praises heroin as if it had a personality. The shift turns dependence into a dark joke, not a recommendation to use a drug or a clinical account.

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