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If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
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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Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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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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The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
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Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
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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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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
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I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.
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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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The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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