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Author: Roger Zelazny
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Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal
It is said that the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, Cassandra, but I hoped it was not so.
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Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light
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." He accepted the package, rolled himself a cigarette. "Light? ...Thanks.
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Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light
A wave of grayness covered over the monastery. The breeze grew stronger, and the dance of the waters began upon the walls. Like a beaded curtain, the rain covered that open end of the porch at which they stared.
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Roger Zelazny _ The Courts of Chaos
Yes,' it announced then. 'You are the one.''The one what?' I said.'The one I will accompany. You've no objection to a bird of ill omen following you, have you, Corwin?' It chuckled then, and executed a little dance.
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Roger Zelazny _ Creatures of Light and
Can life be counted upon to limit itself? No. It is the mindless striving of two to become infinity. Can death be counted upon to limit itself? Never. It is the equally mindless effort of zero to encompass infinity.
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Roger Zelazny _ Trumps of Doom
Only a fool believes that life has but one meaning.
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Roger Zelazny _ Trumps of Doom
Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.
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Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light
When there is no real hope we must mint our own. If the coin be counterfeit it still may be passed.
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Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.
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Roger Zelazny _ This Immortal
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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Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light
It is the difference between the unknown and the unknowable, between science and fantasy - it is a matter of essence. 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 bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.
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Roger Zelazny _ Lord of Light
Being a god is the quality of being able to be yourself to such an extent that your passions correspond with the forces of the universe, so that
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