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I am angry with him but I have compassion for him. The reason I can have a relationship with him is that I don’t see him as my father but as an individual. I’m glad I didn’t murder him that day. I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had.
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Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
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On his father and a fight they had when Childish was 20 years old.

 

Billy Childish

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