"I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool."

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Source : Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.89, Profile Books

Derek Raymond

“Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.”
“To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.”
“At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."”
“The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.”

Source : "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".
“Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer”
“How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product?”
“I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.”
“The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics-you can do magic.”

Source : "Dreams - the lucid experience". "All in the Mind" with Lynne Malcolm, www.abc.net.au. November 2, 2014.

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