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• I never send a story off until I have read it aloud to at least two or three people. Because when I read - and I don't need their criticism, what I need is my own - when I read it aloud, there is a flow, there is a poetry to it.

  Harlan Ellison

  Two, People, Criticism

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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• I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

  Harlan Ellison

  Acceptance, Good Friend, No Friends

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

  Harlan Ellison

  Country, Ice, Tears

  Drew Ford, Harlan Ellison (2016). “Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny”, p.83, Courier Dover Publications

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• Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He grinned sheepishly. "That's ridiculous!" murmured the Ticktockman behind his mask. "Check your watch." And then he went into his office, going mrmee, mrmee, mrmee, mrmee.

  Harlan Ellison

  Office, Watches, Three

  Harlan Ellison (1979). “The fantasies of Harlan Ellison”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.

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  Mistake, Sound, Way

  "Harlan Ellison, Part One". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2008.

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• Anyone who can not write should.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Editing, Editors

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• I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

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  Knowing, Responsible, Wanted

  "Harlan Ellison, Part One". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2008.

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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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  Peace, War, Race

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• Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.

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  Wise, Children, Writing

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories”, p.103, Open Road Media

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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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  Art, Amazon, Midst

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

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  Doe, Use, Fluoride

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Deathbird Stories”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.

  Harlan Ellison

  Thinking, Recognition

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Mind, Dollars

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• The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered and inviting one that from time to time I'm sure even the greatest have to pull themselves up short by the Shift key to remind themselves that it is story first that they should write.

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  Fall, Writing, Keys

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• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  Harlan Ellison

  Belief, Dies

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Deathbird Stories”, p.6, Open Road Media

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