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Harlan Ellison

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Harlan Ellison Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Harlan Ellison

Birthname

Birthday: May 27, 1934

Educated At: Ohio State University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Science Fiction Writer, Literary Critic, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Religion: Atheism

Total quotes: 4

“On the night after the day she had stained the louvered window shutters of her new apartment on East 52nd Street, Beth saw a woman slowly and hideously knifed to death in the courtyard of her building.”

— Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

Tagged: first lines of books

“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”

— Harlan Ellison, Strange Wine (The Harlan Ellison Collection)

Tagged: Writing, writer, author, Creativity

“The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine.”

— Harlan Ellison, The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective (Revised and Expanded)

Tagged: Revenge, Passion, Intelligence, Past

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.”

— Harlan Ellison, Paingod: And Other Delusions

Tagged: Pain, Survival, Love, beauty, Sadness, Happiness

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