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> [What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/what-the-local-politicians-actually-meant-was-that-they-hoped-to/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

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## More by Michael Moorcock

> [Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/introduce-your-main-characters-and-themes-in-the-first-third-of-your/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [ It remains a mystery to me why some of that \[pulp\] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/it-remains-a-mystery-to-me-why-some-of-that-pulp-fiction-should-be/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [“We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/we-would-all-be-better-off-dead-useless-eaters-of-the-lotus-that-we/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [“This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as "that bastard Klaw.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/this-gentleman-is-known-the-width-and-breadth-of-the-comics-world-as/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [“The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentiment. The universe sees no distinction between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/the-sentiment-may-perceive-and-love-the-universe-but-the-universe/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/destiny-s-champion-fate-s-fool-eternity-s-soldier-time-s-tool/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [I'd started doing fanzines from the age of nine. I'd been doing as many copies as you can get carbon paper into an upright…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/i-d-started-doing-fanzines-from-the-age-of-nine-i-d-been-doing-as/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [“Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/time-is-a-dream-or-a-nightmare-from-which-there-is-never-any-waking/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [“IT IS THE colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/it-is-the-colour-of-a-bleached-skull-his-flesh-and-the-long-hair/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/the-past-is-a-script-we-are-constantly-rewriting/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/and-you-prince-elric-she-attracted-the-albino-s-wandering-attention/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/some-of-my-earliest-work-was-in-comics-i-tend-to-think-in-pictures/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/the-problems-for-which-i-could-find-no-solution-in-fact-had-no/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [“She had always been beautiful in his eyes, and admirable, too. He had worshipped her, in some ways, for her courage in adversity, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/she-had-always-been-beautiful-in-his-eyes-and-admirable-too-he-had/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

> [Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/because-i-had-sought-to-challenge-destiny-destiny-had-taken-vengeance/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

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