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The dead are too much with us.

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
Dead
Death
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Nothing we did in those days has caused a change. Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse, I told him.
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
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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 absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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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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