Roger Zelazny Quotes

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• I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a…
• One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas…
• Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
• If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.
• An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a…
• The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To…
• It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
• I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
• I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
• When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
• Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning…
• While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to…
• There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
• Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
• 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,…
• The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
• No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
• Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
• I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better…
• Nobody steals books but your friends.

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