Michael Moorcock Short Quotes

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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

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Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

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Destiny's Champion,
Fate's fool.
Eternity's Soldier,
Time's Tool.

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The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

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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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Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful

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Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

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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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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

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It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.

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I would be grateful if I was allowed to work out my own destiny for once, I said. For good or ill.

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Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

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I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

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There must be countless forms of love. Which is the form which conquers the rest? I cannot define it. I shall not try.

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There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

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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.

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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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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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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...

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Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

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Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence—perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

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