Harlan Ellison Quotes
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Where did he get jelly beans? That's another good question. More than likely it will never be answered to your complete satisfaction. But then, how many questions ever are?
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He had writer's block once. It was the worst ten minutes of his life.
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To say more, is to say less.
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Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
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Now he had form and substance. He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles - middle-class circles - it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.
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I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
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What he wrote was this: The great tragedy of my life is that in my search for the Holy Grail everyone calls True Love, I see myself as Zorro, a romantic and mysterious highwayman - and the women I desire see me as Porky Pig.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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They did it wrong, Doc. They made mistakes. And they'll keep it this way, just because everyone wants to believe it. They don't want to know the truth, Doc. It's easier for everyone this way. If enough people believe the fantasy, well, then it becomes the reality. But we know, Doc. We know who belongs where, don't we?
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You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.
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Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
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Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
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All writers in some insane place believe that to write is a holy chore - that what one wishes to do is speak to one’s time, to make a difference, to say: 'I was here. I was a force for good in some way.'
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If I had to pick a religion, I'd pick Buddhism. Buddhism is a kindly religion. It says you got a chance... it's got humor, it's got wisdom, it says to be nice to each other. All the rest of them have gods that want to beat the crap out of you if you defy the rules.
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For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.
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He was just Ron and I kinda liked him, mostly because he wrote well, and I never felt he took all that Scientology nonsense seriously but knew how to make a good buck, and he liked me, and... well, he was a friend who died.
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Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times ALREADY – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.
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I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.