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I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
Harlan Ellison
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Harlan Ellison
Age: 84 †
Born: 1934
Born: May 27
Died: 2018
Died: June 27
Film Critic
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Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Cleveland
Ohio
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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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
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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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I have no mouth. And I must scream.
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Y is for YGGDRASIL. The legendary Nordic ash tree with its three roots extending into the lands of mortals, giants, and Niflheim, the land of mist, grows in Wisconsin. Legend has it that when the tree falls, the universe will fall. Next Wednesday, the State Highway Commission comes through that empty pasture with a freeway.
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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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My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.
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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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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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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 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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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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Repent, Harlequin, said the Ticktock Man. Get stuffed, the Harlequin replied.
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