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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
Harlan Ellison
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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
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Cleveland
Ohio
Harlan Jay Ellison
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Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.
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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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Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.
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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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When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.
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Writing is a holy chore.
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
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I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.
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You must never be afraid to go there.
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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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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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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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Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim, the land of mist, grows in Wisconsin. Legend has it that when the tree falls, the universe will fall. Next Wednesday, the State Highway Commission comes through that empty pasture with a freeway.
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I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.
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Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
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I have no mouth. And I must scream.
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