Holy Quote by Harlan Ellison

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

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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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The more holy, the more humble.

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I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I…

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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since…

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Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could…

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In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality, the Absolute, or the One who holds us in being. I do believe that God is beyond any form and image, but it has grown clear to me that I need an image in order to…

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Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced…

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The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was his Comment on Galatians . . . . I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart . . . .…

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Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the…

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