Derek Raymond Quotes

#1. You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

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#2. I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.

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#3. 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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#4. It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

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

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#6. Death is its own best friend, and our dreams know it.

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#7. Perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last darkness there might not be the same need of understanding anything so far away as the world anymore.

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#8. I studied him and realized that madness is the last defence of the mind when it can't hope to reconcile itself with events; I too was standing between routine and the unknowable.

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#9. She doesn't think she's worthy to live. But she doesn't realize, she is life.

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#10. 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.

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