Harlan Ellison Quotes

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• The real name for 'science' is magic.
• You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
• 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…
• I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years,…
• The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully…
• Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurist drivel; ‘Star Trek’ can turn your brains into puree of bat guano; and the greatest science…
• You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that…
• Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.
• I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be.…
• I've only been an asshole to assholes!
• With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from…
• For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.
• My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.
• Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
• I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking…
• I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.
• The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one…
• I have no mouth. And I must scream.
• I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with…

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