"I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight."

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Source : Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

Harlan Ellison

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“I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.”

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“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”
“My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.”

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“Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality.”
“Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.”
“China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.”
“A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)
“If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?”

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