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When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Roger Zelazny

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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
Spent
Broken
Lasts
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Whole
Arrow
Heart
Arrows
Bows
Shoot

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