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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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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
Hamlet
Hindsight
Guys
Guy
Known
Wish
Oedipus
Time
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Lear

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Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.
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