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"20 Harlan Ellison Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 May 1934. Died: 27 June 2018 | Writer |

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Entitled Your opinion Informed opinion Ignorant
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The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

The ability Dream My responsibility Burden
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid

Mind Thinking Stupid
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
The trick Writer Staying
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The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

World Turning Imbeciles
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You must never be afraid to go there.
Must never Afraid
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In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Widespread illiteracy Functional People stupid
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They minute people fall in love they become liars.

Minute people Fall Love Liars
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Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
Day job Money Please yourself
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I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Picture Mind Dollars Think
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Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Novel Great distance
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The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Worth writing People Human beings Men
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Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell.

Dismaying aspect Excellence Living World
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Gods can do anything. They fear nothing: they are gods. There is one rule, one Seal of Solomon that can confound a god, and to which all gods pay service, to the letter: when belief in a god dies, the god dies.

God Can do Anything Fear nothing
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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Love Nothing Sex misspelled
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Then he said the truest thing about their relationship. He said, "We didn't really fall in love. What we did was collide at the intersection of your life and mine.

Relationship In love Intersection Life
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The city lay cool and dim beneath a vaulting sky of high-scudding gray clouds. A gray shroud that covered the corpses of buildings, stiff in brick-and-steel rigor mortis, pale in their eternity of sooty death.

City lay Vaulting sky Clouds
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She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.

She thinks Killed Great sweep Mud
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They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can’t be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with?

Stories Friends Gone Angry about
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There are some people who just shouldn't be allowed to fool around with love.

Some people Allowed Love
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Harlan Ellison Quotes & Sayings