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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.

Roger Zelazny

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Roger Zelazny
Age: 58 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 13
Died: 1995
Died: June 14
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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