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Harlan Ellison

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


— Harlan Ellison


#intelligence #opinions #stupidity #intelligence

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


— Harlan Ellison


#elements #hydrogen #most #stupidity #two

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.


— Harlan Ellison


#mob #thinking #love

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.


— Harlan Ellison


#life #life

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.


— Harlan Ellison


#dreams

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.


— Harlan Ellison


#money

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


— Harlan Ellison


#liberation #sex #sexuality #shame #love

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.


— Harlan Ellison


#writing #humor

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.


— Harlan Ellison


#courage #writers #courage

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.


— Harlan Ellison


#hate #i #i love #love #set






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Did you know about Harlan Ellison?

Disney in the studio commissary joking about making a pornographic animated film featuring Disney characters. Since he has used the pseudonym mainly for works he wants to distance himself from it may be understood to mean that "this work is for the birds" or that it is of as much use as shoes to a bird. "

On August 31 he lost his temper with the community and with Willis for not defending him:

"Does not anyone READ WHAT I WROTE within fifteen minutes of learning of this? Does not anyone wonder why if it was such a piggish thing I did as one of those jerkwad blogs calls it Connie Willis hasn’t after twenty-five years of “friendship” not returned my call on Monday … or responded to the Fedex packet of my posting here on Monday which Fedex advises me Harlan Ellison received at 2:20 pm on Tuesday?" ".

His principal genre is speculative fiction. He was editor and anthologist for two ground-breaking science fiction anthologies Dangerous Visions and Again Dangerous Visions. Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27 1934) is an American writer.

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