Harlan Ellison Quotes

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

Harlan Ellison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 27, 1934 - June 28, 2018

Topics

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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

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What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Johann Georg Hamann

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The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

Jennifer Grey

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We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

John Higgins

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There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

Jeff Buckley

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Balaji is one of the most comforting working experiences I have had in my career.

Sriti Jha

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People like Brel were sensitive and vulnerable; on stage, they dared to take risks.

Stromae

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So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

Shirley Knight

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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to.

Mat Kearney

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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

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Every fight is a new fight.

Jose Aldo

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