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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
Letters
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Write
Another
Book
Enough
Writing
Explained
Never
Suppose

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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!” “You burn prettily,” I said.
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The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
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That's life: trust and you're betrayed don't trust and you betray yourself.
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When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.
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