"I'm myself, not a label."

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Source : John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.196, Open Road Media

John Brunner

“You can call it ugly if you want, but I'd call it a win.”
“I've moved away from writing about and describing actual experiences of sex work, whether mine or anybody else's, because the culture is obsessed with the behavior of sex workers. They want to figure out why they do what they do and who they are. What I'm trying to do is to shift the focus onto the producers of the anti-sex work discourse: the cops, the feminists, the anti-prostitution people. Those are the people whose behavior needs to change.”
“If you can help it, you arenâ€™t destined to become a writer.”
“I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.”
“Part of the reality is it's a much longer campaign, but everybody is faced with the same campaign limits as if it was a 36-day campaign.”
“I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.”
“I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.”
“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”

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