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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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Harlan Ellison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1934
Born: May 27
Died: 2018
Died: June 27
Film Critic
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Harlan Jay Ellison
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The real name for 'science' is magic.
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My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.
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For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
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Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.
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With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
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The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.
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[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.
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I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Writing is a holy chore.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning the end will take care of itself.
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A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.
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I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
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What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.
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That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the same level. Everything has the same value, whether it's Albert Einstein speaking, or yoohoo27@msn.com.
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I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can blame everything on some unseen deity, you don’t ever have to be responsible for your own behavior.
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And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.
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