“Nobody steals books but your friends.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver."
"Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“We fought.'
'A duel?'
'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!”
“You burn prettily,” I said.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Time, too, is a function of Shadow, and even Dworkin did not know all of its ins and outs. Or perhaps he did. Maybe that is what drove him mad.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a bit, and maybe my hitch in the dungeons of Amber reminded me somewhat of the quality of human suffering. I do not know. I only know that I could not pass by the hurt I saw on the form of someone much like someone who had once been a friend.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Amber casts an infinity of shadows, and my Avalon had cast many of its own, because of my presence there. I might be known on many earths that I had never trod, for shadows of myself had walked them, mimicking imperfectly my deeds and my thoughts.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
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― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happend”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Beyond the River of the Blessed, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Avalon. Our swords were shattered in our hands and we hung our shields on the oak tree. The silver towers were fallen, into a sea of blood. How many miles to Avalon? None, I say, and all. The silver towers are fallen.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Понимать себя и властовать над собою - это не одно и то же.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“The thing had been quite unpremeditated on my part. I had not even thought of her as a woman until she came into my arms and revised my thinking on the subject.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“child of Amber may walk among them, and such was my heritage. You may call them parallel worlds if you wish, alternate universes if you would, the products of a deranged mind if you care to. I call them shadows, as do all who possess the power to walk among them. We select a possibility and we walk until we reach it. So, in a sense, we create it.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot du Lac to the Keep of Ganelon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
“Their voices lack the thrust and dip of men chewing over their words and tasting them. They”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from The Guns of Avalon
Roger Zelazny
Born place: in Euclid, Ohio, The United States
Born date May 13, 1937
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“She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.”
― Kate Atkinson, quote from Case Histories
“Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days.
Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the other pole are grouped masses of men who have nothing to sell but their labour-power. Nor is it enough that they are compelled to sell themselves voluntarily. The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition and habit looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws. The organization of the capitalist process of production, once it is fully developed, breaks down all resistance.”
― Karl Marx, quote from Capital, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
“When the cities are gone, he thought, and all the ruckus has died away, when sunflowers push up through the concrete and asphalt of the forgotten interstate freeways, when the Kremlin and the Pentagon are turned into nursing homes for generals, presidents and other such shitheads, when the glass-aluminum skyscraper tombs of Phoenix Arizona barely show above the sand dunes, why then, why then, why then by God maybe free men and wild women on horses, free women and wild men, can roam the sagebrush canyonlands in freedom—goddammit!—herding the feral cattle into box canyons, and gorge on bloody meat and bleeding fucking internal organs, and dance all night to the music of fiddles! banjos! steel guitars! by the light of a reborn moon!—by God, yes! Until, he reflected soberly, and bitterly, and sadly, until the next age of ice and iron comes down, and the engineers and the farmers”
― Edward Abbey, quote from The Monkey Wrench Gang
“Everything seems to be working." Except me. I'm broken.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
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