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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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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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I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Derek Raymond
Born:
June 12, 1931
Died:
July 30, 1994
(aged 63)
Bio:
Robert William Arthur Cook, better known since the 1980s by his pen name Derek Raymond, was an English crime writer, credited with being a founder of British noir.
Known for:
I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
He Died With His Eyes Open (1976)
The Devil's Home on Leave (1984)
How the Dead Live (1986)
Crust on Its Uppers (1993)
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