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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison

American Writer

Born: May 27, 1934

Died: Jun 28, 2018

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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. Harlan Ellison

Stupidity Universe Hydrogen Most Common Elements Two

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. Harlan Ellison

You Entitled No-One Opinion Informed Ignorant Your

I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me. Harlan Ellison

Me You Snake Sleeping Unless Bother Poke Like Stick Rock

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid. Harlan Ellison

Me You Mind Stupid Thinking Like Talk

I have no mouth, and I must scream. Harlan Ellison

Mouth Must Scream

To say more, is to say less. Harlan Ellison

Say More Less

All you have to do is look out around you at the good things you've done, and you'll know how good you are. Harlan Ellison

Good You Good Things Out Know Look Around How Done Things

I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber. Harlan Ellison

Ralph Ralph Nader Local Significant Plumber Nearly

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero. Harlan Ellison

History Hero Will Decide Villain

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. Harlan Ellison

Love Sex Nothing Misspelled

You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought. Harlan Ellison

You Thought Become Enough TV Detect Inside Vast Arid Head Soon Passage Very Cannot Which Plain Across Your Watch

When belief in a god dies, the god dies. Harlan Ellison

God Dies Belief

I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can. Harlan Ellison

Best Science Whatever Think Writer Science Fiction Been Ultimately Labels Closer Fiction Fiction Writer Them Really Derogatory Ever Speculative

I never know what I'm going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why I'll have people follow me from place to place like Deadheads. Harlan Ellison

Me People Stage Follow About Give Never Like Know Talk Until Lecture Get Same Going Place Which Twice Why

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter. Harlan Ellison

Matter Everywhere Find Writers Invisible Go Treated

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

Paperback Kind Write Put Surreal Fantasy

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