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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Harlan Jay Ellison
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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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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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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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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
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You must never be afraid to go there.
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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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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
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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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be careful of monsters with teeth
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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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The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one that from time to time I'm sure even the greatest have to pull themselves up short by the Shift key to remind themselves that it is story first that they should write.
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I have no mouth. And I must scream.
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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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Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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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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Repent, Harlequin, said the Ticktock Man. Get stuffed, the Harlequin replied.
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They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.
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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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