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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

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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
Dies
Better
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Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
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I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
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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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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 inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
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Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.
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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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Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
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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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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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