Harlan Ellison Quotes

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Harlan Ellison

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 27, 1934

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

Harlan Ellison

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me.

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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 go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

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Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

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I have no mouth, and I must scream.

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There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'

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I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

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We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

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Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

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I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film.

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All you have to do is look out around you at the good things you've done, and you'll know how good you are.

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You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.

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It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.'

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There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

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I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.

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I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.

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People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out.

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I'm real tall when I stand on my charisma.

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