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Top 8 Derek Raymond Quotes (2025 Update)

Derek Raymond Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond Quote: “I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.”

2. “I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.”

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Derek Raymond Quote: “She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.”

3. “She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.”

— Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond Quote: “Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”

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

— Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond Quote: “I knocked at a second-floor flat in a dreary house, one of two hundred in a dreary Catford street.”

5. “I knocked at a second-floor flat in a dreary house, one of two hundred in a dreary Catford street.”

— Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond Quote: “It’s wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he’s having getting along with himself.”

6. “It’s wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he’s having getting along with himself.”

— Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond Quote: “A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.”

8. “A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.”

— Derek Raymond

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