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I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
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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Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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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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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
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My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.
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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
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Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver. Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.
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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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It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
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I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
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Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
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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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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
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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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I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
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A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
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The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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