“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“Yes,” he said. “But I wonder . . . I’ve a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out.”
“I can appreciate the feeling,” I said. “My own role sometimes makes me want to strangle the author. But look at it this way: inside stories seldom live up to one’s expectations. Usually they are grubby little things, reducing down to the basest of motives when all is known. Conjectures and illusions are often the better possessions.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“Before you are fully aware of anything else, you are aware whether you are awakening in your own bed.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“things sort of equal to equal things sort of being equal to each other, it didn’t much seem to matter.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“От важных дел либо очень скоро в тоску впдаешь, либо наталкиваешься на уйму трудностей - всё зависит от того, какую долю ответственности на себя взвалишь.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
Roger Zelazny
Born place: in Euclid, Ohio, The United States
Born date May 13, 1937
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“This is why we work together," he said. "We're different, but harmonious".”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Wicked Beat
“The world broke open like a big white egg.”
― Cressida Cowell, quote from How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
“Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they’re only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost.”
― Julie Buxbaum, quote from Tell Me Three Things
“Vivo entre dos mundos. La mitad del tiempo me gusta hacer las labores domésticas, me importa mucho mi aspecto, me interesan mucho los hombres y coqueteo maravillosamente (quiero decir que realmente les admiro, aunque me moriría antes de tomar la iniciativa; eso es cosa de hombres), nunca defiendo mi opinión en las conversaciones, y me gusta cocinar. Me gusta hacer cosas por los demás, sobre todo por los hombres. Duermo bien, me despierto a la hora en punto y no sueño. Solamente tengo un defecto:
Soy frígida.
En mi otra encarnación vivo tal cúmulo de conflictos que te parecería imposible que sobreviva, pero sí sobrevivo; me despierto enfurecida, me acuesto paralizada por el desánimo, me enfrento con lo nue sé perfectamente que es condescendencia y desprecio abstracto, me peleo, grito, me enojo con personas que ni siquiera conozco, vivo como si fuera la única mujer del mundo que está intentando conseguirlo todo, trabajo como una loca, lleno todo mi apartamento de notas, artículos, manuscritos y libros, me cabreo, no me importa, me pongo estridentemente pendenciera, a veces río y lloro en el espacio de cinco minutos de pura frustración. Tardo dos horas en dormirme y una en despertarme. Sueño ante mi mesa de despacho. Sueño en todos sitios. Voy muy mal vestida.
Pero ¡oh, cómo gozo la comida! Y ¡oh, cómo jodo!”
― Joanna Russ, quote from The Female Man
“Followed white rabbit. Became black sheep. - Gabrille Maconi”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
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