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Michael Moorcock quotes: I know not which I prefer the look of - those who attack us or that which defends us! I know not which I prefer the look of - those who attack us or that which defends us!
Michael Moorcock quotes: Elric offered Moonglum a smile that had gratitude in it. You are - a good friend - I wonder why ... Elric offered Moonglum a smile that had gratitude in it. You are - a good friend - I wonder why ...
Michael Moorcock quotes: On such ventures as these one isinclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream. On such ventures as these one is
inclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream.
Michael Moorcock quotes: I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic. I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.
Michael Moorcock quotes: The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid. The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid.
Michael Moorcock quotes: By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad. By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
Michael Moorcock quotes: I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Everything means nothing that is the only truth. Everything means nothing that is the only truth.
Michael Moorcock quotes: There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions. There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Who told you that the world was just?' Elric Who told you that the world was just?' Elric
Michael Moorcock quotes: It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating. It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
Michael Moorcock quotes: One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings. One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.
Michael Moorcock quotes: I am a thousand time more evil than thou! I am a thousand time more evil than thou!
Michael Moorcock quotes: Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
Michael Moorcock quotes: There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe. There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou! Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou!
Michael Moorcock quotes: We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation. We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.
Michael Moorcock quotes: If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same? If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?
Michael Moorcock quotes: To seek pain as a formof salvation is to destroy oneself. To seek pain as a form
of salvation is to destroy oneself.
Michael Moorcock quotes: he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men. he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Relaxed, I lit a spliff. Relaxed, I lit a spliff.
Michael Moorcock quotes: I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing. I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing.
Michael Moorcock quotes: The past is a script we are constantly rewriting. The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
Michael Moorcock quotes: They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it. They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs! Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!
Michael Moorcock quotes: The subtlest lie of all is the full truth. The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.
Michael Moorcock quotes: women of exotic appearance. women of exotic appearance.
Michael Moorcock quotes: The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty The Lords of Chaos are
the enemies of Logic,
the jugglers of Truth,
the molders of Beauty
Michael Moorcock quotes: The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack. Treasures are not won by care and forethought
but by swift slaying and reckless attack.
Michael Moorcock quotes: But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions. But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.
Michael Moorcock quotes: I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication. I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
Michael Moorcock quotes: It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
Michael Moorcock quotes: In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real. In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.
Michael Moorcock quotes: He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The
Michael Moorcock quotes: Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive. Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive.
Michael Moorcock quotes: The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution. The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
Michael Moorcock quotes: All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ... All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...
Michael Moorcock quotes: Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world! Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world!
Michael Moorcock quotes: I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future. Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future.
Michael Moorcock quotes: I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse. I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse.
Michael Moorcock quotes: a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell. a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics. Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.
Michael Moorcock quotes: The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath. The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A gooddeath is better than a poor one. Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.
Michael Moorcock quotes: We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are. We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.
Michael Moorcock quotes: We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress. We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress.
Michael Moorcock quotes: It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past. It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.
Michael Moorcock quotes: People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context. People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context.
Michael Moorcock quotes: This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw. This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Time is the enemy of identity Time is the enemy of identity
Michael Moorcock quotes: P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
Michael Moorcock quotes: Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done ... Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done ...
Michael Moorcock quotes: I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience. I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience.
Michael Moorcock quotes: I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion. I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

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