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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
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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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When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
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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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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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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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Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
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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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Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
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Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
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Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
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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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I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
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That's life: trust and you're betrayed don't trust and you betray yourself.
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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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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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