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Quotes from Shatterday — Harlan Ellison

1934–2018 United States

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7 quotes

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

Shatterday (1980)

There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound to break them.

Shatterday (1980)

When you’re alone, as a writer is alone, locked in single combat with the imagination, allies are rare and special.

Shatterday (1980)

There was Art, and there was survival, and sometimes they were mutually exclusive.

Shatterday (1980)

I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other.

Shatterday (1980)

There are four billion people in the world. A world that has grown so complex and uncaring with systems and brutalization of individuals because of the inertia produced by those systems’ perpetuation of self, that merely to live is to be assaulted daily by circumstances.

Shatterday (1980)

The fears to which we are all heir to simply because we are tiny creatures in the universe that is neither benign nor malign…it is simply enormous and unaware of us save as part of the chain of life.

Shatterday (1980)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harlan Ellison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.