Harlan Ellison Quotes
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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Records are nice things, but what's done is done, and no defender in the Champions League is going to say 'Oh, there comes Timo Werner, who won the Golden Shoe'.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.
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The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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To say more, is to say less.
