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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.
Harlan Ellison
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Harlan Ellison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1934
Born: May 27
Died: 2018
Died: June 27
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Harlan Jay Ellison
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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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Writing is a holy chore.
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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
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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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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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They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.
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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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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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I have no mouth. And I must scream.
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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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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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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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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 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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There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.
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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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