"Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap."

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Source : Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.154, Profile Books

Derek Raymond

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“If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.”

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“Home is the place where there is somebody who does not wish you any pain.”

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“The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.”
“I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.”
“Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.”
“I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.”

Source : Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt
“I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.”
“Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.”

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