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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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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
Harrison Denmark
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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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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When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
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Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
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Nothing we did in those days has caused a change. Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse, I told him.
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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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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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Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.
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It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.
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