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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

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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
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There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
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The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
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The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
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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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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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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
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When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
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The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
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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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If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
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