Derek Raymond famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.
-- Derek Raymond

#Winning #Race #Trying
She doesnâ€™t think sheâ€™s worthy to live. But she doesnâ€™t realize, she is life.
-- Derek Raymond

#Thinking #Realizing #Self Hatred
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.
-- Derek Raymond

#Writing #Class #Style
I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.
-- Derek Raymond

#Brain
She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.
-- Derek Raymond

#Thinking #Realizing #Self Hatred

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.

Derek Raymond famous quotes

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