Deathbird Stories Quotes

“Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“THE WAY YOU WALK IS THORNY, MY SON, THROUGH NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.”
― Harlan Ellison, 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, Deathbird Stories

“In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.” –French proverb”
― Harlan Ellison, 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, 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, Deathbird Stories

“We had reached the moment of final nightness.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“Then the first of them touched his smooth, silvery flank and he gave a trembling sigh of pain. A ripple ran down his hide. Not the quick flesh movement of ridding himself of a fly, but a completely alien, unnatural tremor, containing in its swiftness all the agony and loss of eternities. A sigh went out from Paul’s unicorn, though he had not uttered it.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“DIscuss "narking" as a character flaw.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert.”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories