Famous Roger Zelazny Quotations

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"Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom."
by Roger Zelazny
"Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects."
by Roger Zelazny
"Goodbye, and hello, as always."
by Roger Zelazny
"I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip."
by Roger Zelazny
"I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time."
by Roger Zelazny
"I stalk my prison like my own ghost..."
by Roger Zelazny
"Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen."
by Roger Zelazny
"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
by Roger Zelazny
"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."
by Roger Zelazny
"My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world."
by Roger Zelazny
"Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest..."
by Roger Zelazny
"When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart."
by Roger Zelazny


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