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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison (Born: Harlan Jay Ellison, 27 May 1934) is an American author (mostly of speculative fiction) and media critic.
Quotes by Harlan Ellison
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- Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
- Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by society, by religion, by friends and relatives, by the utterly artifical responsiblities of extending false greetings, sending banal cards, reciprocating unsolicated gifts, going to dull parties, putting up with acquaintances and family one avoids all the rest of the year...in short, of being brutalized by a 'holiday' that has lost virtually all of its original meanings and has become a merchandising ploy for color tv set manufacturers and ravagers of the woodlands.
- Source: "No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!", The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
- I don't own a computer, or a modem, or anything like that; I still work on a manual typewriter, by choice, and to those who consider me a Luddite I say: Fuck you and yo mama. I operate at the level of technology that best suits my needs. And I type at 120 words per minute—two fingers—I make no mistakes, and my manuscripts are real. You can pick them up and hold them. My typewriter doesn't dump it's memory—I don't lose a book.
- Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
- Source: IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, 1976
- You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
- Source: "Delusion for a Dragon Slayer"
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- The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
- There are two things I found when I did the Merv Griffin show, the two things I said that got them really crazy, was that I didn't believe in god, and that I really believe there are some people who are better than others.
- When they say, "Gee, it's an information explosion!"—no, it's not an explosion, it's a disgorgement of the bowels is what it is. Every idiotic thing that anybody could possibly write or say or think can get into the body politic now—where before things would have to have some merit to go through the publishing routine, now, anything. And all you're getting is an explosion of useless crap, which added to the other useless crap that was being done originally, only makes it that much worse.
- Why do people keep insisting that I join the twenty-first century? I live in the twenty-first century! I just don't want to be bothered by the shitheads on the internet!
- "The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey- filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald--and Paul Krassner . The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass."
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