“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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“You may exist in
this world--but I exist too
and I will not yield”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Sorta Like a Rock Star
“Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.”
― China Miéville, quote from Railsea
“I can't make the hills
The system is shot
I'm living on pills
For which I thank G-d
I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart
I sailed like a swan
I sank like a rock
But time is long gone
Past my laughing stock
My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in
My animal howls
My angel's upset
But I'm not allowed
A trace of regret
For someone will use
What I couldn't be
My heart will be hers
Impersonally
She'll step on the path
She'll see what I mean
My will cut in half
And freedom between
For less than a second
Our lives will collide
The endless suspended
The door open wide
Then she will be born
To someone like you
What no one has done
She'll continue to do
I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book”
― Leonard Cohen, quote from Book of Longing
“All the men send you orchids because they're expensive and they know that you know they are. But I always kind of think they're cheap, don't you, just because they're expensive. Like telling someone how much you paid for something to show off.”
― Winifred Watson, quote from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
“If love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. -Sadhu Vaswani BRENT”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from The Consequences Series Box Set
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