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Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
Roger Zelazny
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Roger Zelazny
Age: 58 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 13
Died: 1995
Died: June 14
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
Harrison Denmark
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Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
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My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.
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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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That's life: trust and you're betrayed don't trust and you betray yourself.
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
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At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.
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The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.
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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
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I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
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Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
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Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver. Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.
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Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.
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The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
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