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Friday Happy Hour Video: “I don’t take a piss without getting paid for it”

06.29.2018 by David Murray // 1 Comment

The fantasy writer Harlan Ellison died yesterday at 84, leaving his own epitaph: "For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time I mattered." Ellison also left his fellow writers this loin-girding anthem for self-respect.

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  1. Jamal Kheiry says

    June 29, 2018 at 7:02 am

    Oh MAN that’s good stuff! Having sold my words and wordsmithing for almost 25 years, his sentiment about the amateurs undercutting the pros really resonates.

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