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There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

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
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Wanting
Dead
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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
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