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Mercy, I have learned, is a thing that is withheld from one whenever he most needs it,” he said. "Yet when he is in a position to grant it himself, those who withheld it previously cry out for it. (Roger Zelazny)
Beware,” she recited a personal beatitude, "those who hunger and thirst after justice, for we will be satisfied.” "And beware the meek,” she continued, "for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth. View quote
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Earth grates on my nerves. It gives me a big pain these days. That's why I live out here. Earth is overcrowded, bureaucratic, unhealthy, and suffering from too many mass-psychoses to bother classifying. View quote
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Then it is impossible to get an honest answer from you.” "If by ‘honest answer' you mean for me to say what you want me to say, whether or not it is true, then I would say that you are correct. View quote
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He doubted that his petition would be heard, however, since he did not feel that the gods would devote much attention to anything emitted from this particular portion of the world. View quote
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I thought about the Elder Gods and wondered at how they might change things if the way were opened for their return. The world could be a good place or a nasty place without supernatural intervention; we had worked out our own way of doing things, defined our own goods and evils. Some gods were great for individual ideals to be aimed at, rather than actual ends to be sought, here and now. As for the Elders, I could see no profit in intercourse with those who transcend utterly. I like to keep all such things in abstract, Platonic realms and not have to concern myself with physical presences. View quote
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Toward the bright stars, from the dark ground, he hurled another petition, for whatever it was worth. View quote
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Every now and then it's nice to stop and just look over what you've been writing and the way you've been writing it and sort of reassess it, and see if you've fallen into bad habits or there's something you'd like to get better at. One way of reexamining your own work is to work with somebody else. It's a learning experience. I don't want to get into a rut. View quote
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Is not love itself a form of a spell, where one is loved and the other loves, and the one who loves is compelled to do the other's bidding? Of course. It is the same thing. View quote
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I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion. View quote
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I had no doubts as to the correctness of my own beliefs, that human nature could be altered, that man could be forced to evolve morally. (Roger Zelazny)
There are circumstances under which the anomalous should be courted. Ignorance is one of them. View quote
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Anyone who rushes toward an unknown peril simply to satisfy a desire for excitement is a fool. View quote
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After signing it, he added the postscript: By the time you read this, you will already be dead. View quote
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He was one of those scientist-artists who comes along every few centuries to justify the existence of that overworked word "genius.”. View quote
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Some are born to obscurity and others only achieve it through diligent effort. View quote
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I didn't say anything because I didn't have anything to say. View quote
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The days that followed were a game I enjoyed playing. Fake indecision is delicious when people want you to do something. View quote
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They're here and we're here, and they think we're gods-maybe because we do nothing for them but make them miserable. View quote
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The garden of life never seems to confine itself to the plot philosophers have laid out for its convenience maybe a few more tractors would do the trick. View quote
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You cannot trick me into applying my principles to a hypothetical situation which will only work out the way that you want it to. Not when I am certain that it will not arise. (Roger Zelazny)
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living. View quote
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Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. View quote
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So I sat down and made a list of everything I felt I should know more about. Astrophysics, oceanography, marine biology, genetics... Then when I'd finished the list I read one book in each of these areas. When I'd finished I went back and read a second book until I'd read ten books in each area. I thought that it wouldn't turn me into a terrific, fantastic expert but I'd at least have enough material there to know if I was saying something wrong. View quote
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I try to write every day. I used to try to write four times a day, minimum of three sentences each time. It doesn't sound like much but it's kinda like the hare and the tortoise. If you try that several times a day you're going to do more than three sentences, one of them is going to catch on. You're going to say "Oh boy!" View quote
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