“I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.”

1990 interview, as quoted in The New York Times (28 June 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/28/us/ap-us-obit-harlan-ellison.html

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American writer 1934–2018

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