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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.” quote by Harlan Ellison — Download Open image

“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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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…

“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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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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