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Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.

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Warren Ellis
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: February 16
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Warren Girard Ellis
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The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.
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There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.
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Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.
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Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.
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Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
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If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
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Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend.
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By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
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I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.
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There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
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