Roger Zelazny cytaty strona 3

„I chciałbyś, żebym o tym wspomniał przy najbliższej dyskusji o atomowej rzeźbie Tony'ego Price'a?”

Merlin do Jasry
Rycerz cieni

„Kiedy ludzie zamieniają się w posągi, jesteś w niewłaściwym miejscu albo masz kłopoty.”

Merlin do Randoma, który chce by ten wstawił się za pokonanym niedoszłym królem Kashfy.
Rycerz cieni
Źródło: Rycerz cieni

Roger Zelazny książka Znak Jednorożca

Fiona do Corwina, przypomina słowa Oberona o magicznym Klejnocie.
Znak Jednorożca

„A deszcze bez rynien nie często padają między nami…”

„Oto życie: zaufaj komuś, a zostaniesz zdradzony. Nie zaufaj, a sam siebie zdradzisz.”

Postać: Corwin
kilkukrotnie wypowiadane słowa przez Corwina w roli narratora.

„I tak wniosłem sir Lancelota du Lac do Twierdzy Ganelona, któremu ufałem jak bratu. To znaczy, żeby wyrazić się precyzyjniej – ani trochę.”

Merlin gdy nagle znalazł się w nieznanym sobie miejscu.
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Roger Zelazny książka Karabiny Avalonu

Karabiny Avalonu

„Merytho, wydaje mi się, iż jestem w nieco niezręcznej sytuacji. Jak mogę być gościem lorda-wampira, któremu przyprawiłem rogi? Nie mam pojęcia, co się mówi przy takich okazjach.”

Roger Zelazny książka Dilvish Przeklęty

Dilvish Przeklęty

„Zdjąłem z siodła złowieszczy pakunek i zostawiłem konia do przeglądu i obsługi technicznej.”

Roger Zelazny książka Znak Jednorożca

Corwin wraca do Amberu, z informacją, że Caine nie żyje. Pakunek to zwłoki stwora z Cienia, który prawdopodobnie zabił jego brata.
Znak Jednorożca

„Kto nie ryzykuje, ten nie wygrywa.”

„Nie budźcie mnie nawet na koniec świata, chyba że miałby naprawdę dobre efekty specjalne.”

Merlin do Jasry
Rycerz cieni

Roger Zelazny Książę Chaosu

Postać: Merlin
Książę Chaosu

„Koszmar zbliżał się ku końcowi, lecz miałem wrażenie, że trwał całą wieczność.”

Roger Zelazny książka Dziewięciu książąt Amberu

Dziewięciu książąt Amberu

„Dr Malacar Miles był jedynym człowiekiem na Ziemi. Był tutaj panem, absolutnym monarchą. I wcale o to nie dbał. Ziemia należała do niego. Nikt inny jej nie chciał.”

Roger Zelazny książka Umrzeć w Italbarze

Umrzeć w Italbarze

„Śledząc rozwój broni, od prymitywnej po wyszukaną, zauważyłem, że broń systemy obronne i nowa broń naprawdę pojawiały się jako odpowiedź na drugie z godną wykresu przewidywalnością, że dziedzinę tę można by słusznie postrzegać jako jeden z niewielu klasycznych przykładów całkowicie zgodnego z oczekiwaniami działania dialektyki: teza, antyteza, synteza, i tak do znudzenia. Musiałem tylko rozważyć berserkera jako tezę i zastosować formułę.”

“Times have changed since the Good Book was written, and you can’t hold with a purely Fundamentalist approach in complex times.”

Źródło: wstęp do opowiadania Sam zaskoczony ze zbioru Mróz i ogień

Roger Zelazny: Cytaty po angielsku

“The power to hurt… has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.”

Home is the Hangman (1975)

“Never trust a cat, anyway. All they’re good for is stringing tennis racquets.”

Roger Zelazny książka He Who Shapes

He Who Shapes (1965)

““Nothing we did in those days has caused a change.”
“Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse,” I told him.”

Roger Zelazny książka A Night in the Lonesome October

October 6 (p. 28)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

“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.”

Roger Zelazny książka This Immortal

Źródło: This Immortal (1965), p. 131

““Why do you tell me this?”
“Perhaps because I am a cat and it amuses me to be arbitrary and do you a good turn.””

The Agnostic's Prayer from the novel Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969)

“The dead are too much with us.”

Roger Zelazny książka A Night in the Lonesome October

October 2 (p. 9)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

“May the blind things at the bottom of the great sea, whose bellies are circles of light,” he said, “recall with pleasure the flavor of your marrow.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 2 (p. 59)

“There comes a time in the history of all bureaucracies when they must inevitably parody their own functions.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter (p. 125)

“The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 3 (p. 62)

“Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today, filled with nostalgia and fear of the future.”

Roger Zelazny książka This Immortal

Źródło: This Immortal (1965), p. 60

“This added the element of mystery that made the comparison inevitable: life is a thing that reminds me quite a bit of the beaches around Tokyo Bay. Anything goes. Strange and unique things are being washed up all the time. I’m one of them and so are you. We spend some time on the beach, maybe side by side, and then that slopping, smelling, chilly thing rakes it with the liquid fingers of a crumbling hand and some of the things are gone again.”

Roger Zelazny książka He Who Shapes

He Who Shapes (1965)

“There’s no need for your pretty lies now. It makes no difference to an old woman the things a young girl believed.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 1 (p. 6)

“My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one—there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best….”

Roger Zelazny książka Jack of Shadows

Źródło: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 3 (p. 32)

““When you talk about being an ‘anticipator,’ of having a pretty good idea of when something’s going to happen—or how, or who will be there—isn’t that a kind of divination?”
“No. I think it’s more a kind of subconscious knack for dealing with statistics, against a fairly well-known field of actions.””

Roger Zelazny książka This Immortal

Źródło: This Immortal (1965), p. 169

“Then I could turn around and justify that, by saying that it isn’t really paranoia if there really are people out to get you.”

Roger Zelazny książka A Night in the Lonesome October

October 23 (p. 173)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

“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 Isle of the Dead

Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 1 (p. 22)

““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.””

Roger Zelazny książka Jack of Shadows

Źródło: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 9 (p. 99)

“Everything that’s miserable in the world,” Nick the dwarf once said to me, “is because of beauty.”
“Not truth or goodness?” I’d asked.
“Oh, they help. But beauty is the culprit, the real principle of evil.”
“Not wealth?”

Roger Zelazny książka He Who Shapes

He Who Shapes (1965)

“Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You’ve crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

“Money is beautiful.”
Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 2 (p. 56)

“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.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 5 (p. 101)

“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature — swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.”

Roger Zelazny Isle of the Dead

Źródło: Isle of the Dead (1969), Chapter 3 (p. 61)

““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.””

Roger Zelazny książka Unicorn Variation

Unicorn Variation (1982)

“My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.”

Roger Zelazny książka Jack of Shadows

Źródło: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

“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.”

Phlogiston interview (1995)

“Two days like icebergs—bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind—drifted by and were good to put behind.”

Roger Zelazny książka Jack of Shadows

Źródło: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 2 (p. 16)

“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.”

The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth (1965)

“Toward the bright stars, from the dark ground, he hurled another petition, for whatever it was worth.”

Roger Zelazny książka A Night in the Lonesome October

October 21 (pp. 138-139)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)

““From the shape of a cloud I know that a man in a distant city will quarrel with his wife three seasons hence and a murderer will be hanged before I finish speaking. From the falling of a stone I know the number of maidens being seduced and the movements of icebergs on the other side of the world. From the texture of the wind I know where next the lightning will fall. So long have I watched and so much am I part of all things, that nothing is hidden from me.”
“You know where I go?”
“Yes.”
“And what I would do there?”
“I know that, too.”
“Then tell me if you know, will I succeed in that which I desire?”
“You will succeed in that which you are about, but by then it may not be what you desire.”
“I do not understand you, Morningstar.”
“I know that, too. But that is the way it is with all oracles, Jack. When that which is foreseen comes to pass, the inquirer is no longer the same person he was when he posed the question. It is impossible to make a man understand what he will become with the passage of time; and it is only a future self to whom a prophecy is truly relevant.””

Roger Zelazny książka Jack of Shadows

Źródło: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 2 (p. 19)

“I had troubles of my own, and even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.”

Roger Zelazny książka Jack of Shadows

Źródło: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 6 (p. 62)