Quotes by Roger Zelazny

About Roger Zelazny:

Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad (1965; subsequently published under the title This Immortal, 1966) and then the novel Lord of Light (1967).
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It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

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Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful....

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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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Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, yo...

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[..] when a friendship has become a matter of arranging to meet, dates in diaries, agreement that next week or the next are 'no good', then it has been silently acknowledged that the old intimacy has gone.

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Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

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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 when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

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In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...

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Besides, 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 when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

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The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

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You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.

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Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

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

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Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.

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Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their s...

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If it will give you any satisfaction in the end, I still care for you. Either there is no such thing as love, or the word does not mean what I have thought it to mean on many different occasions. It is a feeling without a name, really—better to lea...

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Which one the right way?" "Huh? You're asking me ? How should I know?" "Mortals call you Buddha." "That is only because they are afflicted with language and ignorance.

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He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.

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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 period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameRoger Zelazny
  • DescriptionAmerican speculative fiction writer
  • BornMay 13, 1937
  • DiedJune 14, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksLord Of Light; The Chronicles Of Amber; Isle Of The Dead; The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth, And Other Stories; Doorways In The Sand; Eye Of Cat; Unicorn Variations; A Night In The Lonesome October
  • AwardsHugo Award; Nebula Award