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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
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
Harrison Denmark
Spaced
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Knock
Equally
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
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Do you work for the government, any government?” I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
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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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That's life: trust and you're betrayed don't trust and you betray yourself.
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
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There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
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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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