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Nobody steals books but your friends.

Roger Zelazny

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Roger Zelazny
Age: 58 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 13
Died: 1995
Died: June 14
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
Harrison Denmark
Steals
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Nobody
Books
Friends
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
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Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.
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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
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Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.
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Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.
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The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.
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There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
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It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.
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I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
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I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
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I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!” “You burn prettily,” I said.
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I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.
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It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
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There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
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Do you work for the government, any government?” I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.
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