Michael Moorcock Quotes
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The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty
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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
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Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.
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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.
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Time is the enemy of identity
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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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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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The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.
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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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I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!
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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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It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.