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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
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Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.
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It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
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I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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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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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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The dead are too much with us.
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It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.
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Good-bye and hello, as always.
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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
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Nothing we did in those days has caused a change. Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse, I told him.
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
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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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There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
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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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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
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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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There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
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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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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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