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Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
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
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Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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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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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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Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
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When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
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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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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 day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
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The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
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There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.
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That's life: trust and you're betrayed don't trust and you betray yourself.
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I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.
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