Roger Zelazny citáty

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„Jen hlupák nemá strach z opravdové síly.“

„Hřbitovy jsou plné lidí, co si mysleli, že je nikdo nemůže nahradit.“

„Vždycky se mi zdálo, že peklo jsou ostatní lidé.“

„…. a kouř bez ohně se najde jen zřídka…..“

„Buď má v sobě element iracionality, nebo je to inteligence takové úrovně, že některé z jeho projevů se nižším bytostem jen jeví jako iracionální.“

„Srdeční záležitosti jsou buď strašně jednoduché, nebo úplně neproniknutelné.“

„Všechny naše speciální síly mají svůj rub. Čím větší síla, tím větší je i cena za ni.“

„Život je plný dveří, které nejdou otevřít, když klepete, a zároveň je tam plno otevřených dveří, o které nestojíte.“

„Člověk je zvíře, které s sebou přináší kulturu.“

„Nebude možné se tomu vyhnout. Taková byla podstata hry, a já si na ni nemohl stěžovat, neboť jsem to byl já, kdo pravidla stanovil.“

„Nejtěžší věcí na čase je vytvořit ho.“

„Nemá žádný význam umět se přenést kamkoliv, když je někdo kretén všude.“

„Vím také, že smrt je jediný bůh, který přijde, když ho voláš.“

„Copak mohu lhát, když se mě nikdo na nic neptá?“

„Musíš se stát něčím větším, než jen sám sebou. Uniknout z klece svého života.“

„Můžete tomu říkat paralelní světy, jest-li chcete, alternativní vesmíry, jest-li se vám to líbí víc, anebo výplody choré mysli, když vám to vyhovuje. Já je nazývám stíny.“

„Někdy i zdání může být skutečnost.“

„Nezáleží na výsledku, ale na snaze.“

„Opřel jsem se o zábradlí a rozhlížel se po tváři země.“

„Vždycky nech spící démony ležet.“

“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.”

“Cute,” she said, smiling. “If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.”

“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.”

“I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.”

“I got the idea for that story in May of 1979. I didn't know what it was going to be; I just thought it would be neat to write something about Jack the Ripper's dog, and ask Gahan Wilson to illustrate it, partly because of the fact that a dog is such an unusual person. No matter who owns a dog, if that person is nice to the animal, the dog is going to love him. I thought at the time, if you take a really despicable person, a serial killer or someone like that, and tell a story from his dog's point of view it would make him look pretty good.”

“Nothing we did in those days has caused a change.”

“… Zelazny became a leading and representative figure of the American New Wave, with Harlan Ellison conspicuously goading all and sundry <…>.”

“… when your body was destroyed as we entered here I was able to mn? you quickly through the process by which I became an immortal energy being. Thought you might appreciate it.”

“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.”

“There are circumstances under which the anomalous should be courted. Ignorance is one of them.”

“...And I have seen stranger things in a long and colorful career. Exactly. So what is the problem in believing my story?”

“Anyone who rushes toward an unknown peril simply to satisfy a desire for excitement is a fool.”

“After signing it, he added the postscript: By the time you read this, you will already be dead.”

“He was one of those scientist-artists who comes along every few centuries to justify the existence of that overworked word “genius.””

“Then it is impossible to get an honest answer from you.”

“Some are born to obscurity and others only achieve it through diligent effort.”

“I didn’t say anything because I didn’t have anything to say.”

“The days that followed were a game I enjoyed playing. Fake indecision is delicious when people want you to do something.”

“They’re here and we’re here, and they think we’re gods—maybe because we do nothing for them but make them miserable.”

“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.”

“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.”