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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
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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Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being? Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.
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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
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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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The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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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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Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
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The dead are too much with us.
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Good-bye and hello, as always.
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If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.
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Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.
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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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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
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It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
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When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
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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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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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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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