Harlan Ellison

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• Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity.

  “No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!” (1972) The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

  • Christmas
  • Comedy

• Don’t start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don’t. They’ll make you look like chopped liver.

  IguanaCon Guest of Honor speech, Phoenix, Arizona, (1978)

  • Advice
  • Debate

• It is my lot to wake with anger every morning, to lie down at night even angrier.

  Shatterday (1980), Introduction: Mortal Dreads (p. xviii)

  • Anger

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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