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• K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

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  Nice, Civilization, History

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Strange Wine: Stories”, p.102, Open Road Media

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• You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

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  Writing, Holy, Millionaire

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• The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

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  Writing, Becoming, Tricks

  "Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak". Book by Jayme Lynn Blaschke (p. 182), April 1, 2005.

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• Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.

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  Writing, Way, Doe

  Harlan Ellison (2016). “Slippage”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

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  Writing, Audience, Knows

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• 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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  Horse, Pain, Real

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• Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

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  Writing, Coward, Commodity

  Harlan Ellison (1972). “Dangerous Visions”, Berkley

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• I've only been an asshole to assholes!

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• be careful of monsters with teeth

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  Monsters, Teeth, Be Careful

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook”, p.56, Open Road Media

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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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  Science, People, Progress

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Troublemakers”, p.244, Open Road Media

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• They minute people fall in love they become liars.

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  Falling In Love, Liars, People

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled”, p.20, Open Road Media

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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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  Book, Writing, World

  "Quit Your Day Job!: How to Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and Make a Ton of Money as a Writer". Book by Jim Denney and James D. Denney, 2003.

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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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  Philosophy, Frustration, Life Is

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook”, p.208, Open Road Media

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• The real name for 'science' is magic.

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  Real, Science, Names

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Troublemakers”, p.238, Open Road Media

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• [On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

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  Love, Tired, Responsibility

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• To say more, is to say less.

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  Harlan Ellison (2016). “Harlan Ellison's Watching”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.

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  Dream, Worthy, Your Dreams

  "Delusion for a Dragon Slayer". Short story by Harlan Ellison, 1966.

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• I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

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  People, Upset, Quality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

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  Revenge, Hate, Passion

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• I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.

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  Humorous, Profound, Insane

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• HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.

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  Hate, Layers, Miles

  "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories". Book by Harlan Ellison, April 29, 2014.

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• I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.

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  Enemy, Mouths, Firsts

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• What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

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  Writing, Soul, Trying

  "Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers". Book by Ann Evory, 1982.

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• I have no mouth. And I must scream.

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  Mouths, Computer, Scream

  "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream". Book by Harlan Ellison, 2014.

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• I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.

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  Love Is, People

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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