Michael Moorcock Quotes

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• I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us! Attack
• 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
• 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
• Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who… Expect
• Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? Cage
• Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves. Betray
• It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… Attention
• 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… Alone
• It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. Almost Impossible
• 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… Addicted
• 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… Actually Meant
• 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… All
• 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, that… Attention
• The past is a script we are constantly rewriting. Constantly
• Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack. Attack
• Time is the enemy of identity Enemy
• What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a… Anger
• It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past. All
• The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. Book
• Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful Attempts

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