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If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.

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
Book
Enough
Writing
Explained
Never
Suppose
Letters
Saying
Write
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