“Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
“We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story’s end.”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
“In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.” –French proverb”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” –ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, 1973”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
“If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert.”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
“We had reached the moment of final nightness.”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
“There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
“for a people with a heritage of enslavement, evil is a concept of those who forged the shackles, not those who wore them.”
― Harlan Ellison, quote from Deathbird Stories
Harlan Ellison
Born place: in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
Born date May 27, 1934
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“No. He was not here to retrieve his wife. For his wife was not a thing to be retrieved.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from The Rose & the Dagger
“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from La voz de los muertos
“I closed the book and closed my heart along with it.”
― Staci Hart, quote from A Thousand Letters
“I can’t wait for the day when you tell me you’ve got the clap.” He cocks his head to the side. “That’s what you can’t wait for? Out of everything in the world, that’s what you can’t wait for? Bear, that’s just sad. And very, very mean of you. Just for that, if I do get the clap, I am going to pee in your mouth while you are sleeping, and then you can have the clap with me.” He starts grabbing his crotch and moaning, and I laugh and try to get away, but he presses me up against the wall. An old couple walks out of the store and stares at us. He waves at them and says, “It’s okay. We’re gay. This is my life partner, Greg.”
― T.J. Klune, quote from Bear, Otter, and the Kid
“In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.”
― Natasha Pulley, quote from The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
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