Roger Zelazny Short Quotes

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I wasn't disappointed, inasmuch as I expected nothing.

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No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

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I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

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The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

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It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

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There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

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Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

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The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

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Never trust a cat, anyway. All they're good for is stringing tennis racquets.

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The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

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I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.

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The power to hurt... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

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There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

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The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

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There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

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Why do you tell me this?
Perhaps because I am a cat and it amuses me to be arbitrary and do you a good turn.

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Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

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Cute, she said, smiling. If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

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Times have changed since the Good Book was written, and you can't hold with a purely Fundamentalist approach in complex times.

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I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

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Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today, filled with nostalgia and fear of the future.

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At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

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An ellipse is fine for as far as it goes, But modesty, away! If I'm going to see Beauty without her clothes Give me hyperbolas any old day.

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I had troubles of my own, and even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

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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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My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

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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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I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.

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If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

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