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The real name for 'science' is magic.

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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
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Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Harlan Jay Ellison
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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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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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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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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 don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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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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be careful of monsters with teeth
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Writing is a holy chore.
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
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Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.
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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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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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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
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The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass.
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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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They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
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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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You must never be afraid to go there.
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