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Harlan Ellison Quotes
Harlan Ellison Quotes
Harlan Ellison
American
Writer
Born:
May 27
,
1934
Died:
Jun 28
,
2018
Five
Get
Me
Science
Will
You
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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
We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.
Harlan Ellison
Responsibility
Our
Everything
Our Lives
Around
Got
Wonders
Them
Us
Used
Lives
Technological
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 don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.
Harlan Ellison
Remember
Running
More
Could
Hours
Without
Five
Than
Being
Anyone
Stand
Who
Company
Street
There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'
Harlan Ellison
Great
You
Great Gatsby
Somalia
Bet
Arctic
Never
Know
Hamlet
Heard
Tarzan
Children
Might
Who
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
It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.'
Harlan Ellison
Life
Joy
Long
Trek
Others
My Friend
Long Life
Became
Friend
Worked
Who
Many
Star
Star Trek
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