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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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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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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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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To say more, is to say less.
