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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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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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