Roger Zelazny Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Roger Zelazny

  Thinking, Talking, Conversation

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.13, ibooks

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

  Roger Zelazny

  Buddhist, Reality, Men

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.

  Roger Zelazny

  Nice, Stronger, Would 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.

  Roger Zelazny

  Fall, Car, Survival

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “Madwand”, p.251, ibooks

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• I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Typewriters, Trying

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• Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sea, Smell, Dwelling

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

  Roger Zelazny

  Philosophical, Vistas, Toothache

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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• If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Thinking, Metaphor

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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

  Roger Zelazny

  Goes On, Want, Wanting You

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.100, ibooks

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

  Roger Zelazny

  Heart, Anticipation, Moments

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

  Roger Zelazny

  Inspiration, Tire, Silent

  "Trumps of Doom (The Second Chronicles of Amber, Book 1)". Book by Roger Zelazny (Chapter 6, p. 108), May 1985.

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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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  Spring, Sorrow, Clock

  Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press

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• 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.

  Roger Zelazny

  Followers, Atman, Said

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• 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 words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

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  Dream, Light, Burning

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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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.

  Roger Zelazny

  Wall, Enemy, Important

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos”

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• When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot
  with your whole heart.

  Roger Zelazny

  Heart, Arrows, Broken

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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.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sex, Sleep, Water

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.218, ibooks

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• One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Character, Ideas

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• Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

  Roger Zelazny

  Hurt, Facts, Reconcile

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• I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

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  Writing, Character, Mean

  "A Conversation With Roger Zelazny". Talking with Terry Dowling and Keith Curtis in Science Fiction Vol. 1, #2, June 1978.

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• Love is a negative form of hatred.

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  Love Is, Hatred, Negative

  Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.78, ibooks

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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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  Stars, Grateful, Destiny

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• Nobody steals books but your friends.

  Roger Zelazny

  Book, Stealing

  "The Guns of Avalon". Book by Roger Zelazny (p. 196), 1972.

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• Good-bye and hello, as always.

  Roger Zelazny

  Bye, Good Bye, Hello

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos”

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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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  Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.169, ibooks

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