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

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
Screenwriter
Writer
Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
Harrison Denmark
Mirrors
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There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
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The dead are too much with us.
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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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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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When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
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Good-bye and hello, as always.
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If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
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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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Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
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The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
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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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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.
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I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
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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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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
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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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