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Zelazny quote - NOT!
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ckovacs
Dec 1, 2009, 5:11:37 PM12/1/09
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Someone sent a twitter message a while back claiming that Zelazny said
"When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot
with your whole heart."
"When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot
with your whole heart."
And now hundreds of websites and tweets have repeated the same thing.
But he didn't write that or say that. It looks like it was a Zen
aphorism, but it definitely wasn't Zelazny's. It's not in any of his
writings. But all it takes is one person to tweet it and everyone
assumes it's true and forwards it on.
In a similar vein, one of Neil Gaiman's quotes from Sandman is now
being attributed to William Shakespeare!
The speed of information traveling is great but the lack of fact-
checking leaves a lot to be desired.
Chris
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The Wizard of Berkeley
Jan 29, 2010, 1:06:52 AM1/29/10
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Perhaps Zelazny would have advised shooting until only two arrows are
left, at which point those two arrows would be dual-wielded and used
like daggers against the enemy.
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