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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.
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
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Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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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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That's life: trust and you're betrayed don't trust and you betray yourself.
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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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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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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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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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