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The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
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
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Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
Harrison Denmark
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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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Good-bye and hello, as always.
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It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.
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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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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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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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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!” “You burn prettily,” I said.
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When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
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The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.
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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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Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
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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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There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
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The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
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Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.
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Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
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