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They minute people fall in love they become liars.
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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cleveland
Ohio
Harlan Jay Ellison
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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
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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 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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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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Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off. He grinned sheepishly. That's ridiculous! murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. Check your watch. And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.
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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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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 will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.
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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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They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.
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People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
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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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