Michael Moorcock Quotes
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When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little, fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.
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I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!
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Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
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Time is the enemy of identity
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Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.
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Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
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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?
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Everything means nothing that is the only truth.
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Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.
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The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.
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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
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It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.