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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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Derek Raymond

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:
  1. I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
  2. He Died With His Eyes Open (1976)
  3. The Devil's Home on Leave (1984)
  4. How the Dead Live (1986)
  5. Crust on Its Uppers (1993)

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