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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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
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Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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To say more, is to say less.
