Alive Quote by Harlan Ellison

“Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.”

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Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

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They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

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They minute people fall in love they become liars.

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Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

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“Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created...”

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I have no mouth. And I must scream.

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There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

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For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

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“There are forces in the world today, Mr. Winsocki, that are invisibly working to make us all carbon copies of one another. Forces that crush us into molds of each other. You walk down the street and never see anyone’s face, really. You sit faceless in a movie, or hidden from sight in a dreary living room watching television. When…

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“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”…

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I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.

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Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the…

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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