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Michael Moorcock Quote: “The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid.”

51. “The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “It’s getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I’ve drowned and be celebrating.”

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

— Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock Quote: “Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...”

53. “Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world’s population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.”

54. “Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world’s population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.”

55. “Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “Memory is the foundation of identity. Through our sense of identity, we act. We determine our moral judgements. We rewrite our own memories, of course, all the time. We create fresh narratives to use in our survival. We agree on fresh histories enabling us to take action. It is part of what makes us such flawed creatures. Creatures of such narrative fiction creating cause and effect.”

56. “Memory is the foundation of identity. Through our sense of identity, we act. We determine our moral judgements. We rewrite our own memories, of course, all the time. We create fresh narratives to use in our survival. We agree on fresh histories enabling us to take action. It is part of what makes us such flawed creatures. Creatures of such narrative fiction creating cause and effect.”

— Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock Quote: “I know not which I prefer the look of – those who attack us or that which defends us!”

57. “I know not which I prefer the look of – those who attack us or that which defends us!”

— Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock Quote: “The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.”

58. “The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.”

— Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock Quote: “In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.”

59. “In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.”

— Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock Quote: “She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt to arrange her thoughts in the conventional manner.”

60. “She had enjoyed a phase where she found it easier to divide herself and argue, as it were, face to face, than to attempt to arrange her thoughts in the conventional manner.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “A man frantically spurring an equally frightened horse – and behind him, the distance decreasing, a pack of what at first appeared to be dogs. But these were not dogs – they were half-dog and half-bird, with the lean, shaggy bodies and legs of dogs but possessing birdlike talons in place of paws and savagely curved beaks which snapped where muzzles should have been.”

61. “A man frantically spurring an equally frightened horse – and behind him, the distance decreasing, a pack of what at first appeared to be dogs. But these were not dogs – they were half-dog and half-bird, with the lean, shaggy bodies and legs of dogs but possessing birdlike talons in place of paws and savagely curved beaks which snapped where muzzles should have been.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “Arioch!” swore Elric, suddenly recognizing the riders. “These are the Lords of Dharzi – dead these ten centuries. We’re fighting dead men, Moonglum, and the too-tangible ghosts of their dogs. Unless I can think of a sorcerous means to defeat them, we’re doomed!”

62. “Arioch!” swore Elric, suddenly recognizing the riders. “These are the Lords of Dharzi – dead these ten centuries. We’re fighting dead men, Moonglum, and the too-tangible ghosts of their dogs. Unless I can think of a sorcerous means to defeat them, we’re doomed!”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “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.”

63. “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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Michael Moorcock Quote: “Moonglum sighed. “Elric – this once, let us not court the danger.”

64. “Moonglum sighed. “Elric – this once, let us not court the danger.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “Know this. Elric cannot have want he desires most. What he desires does not exist. What he desires is dead. All Elric has is sorrow, guilt, malice, hatred. This is all he deserves and all he will ever desire.”

65. “Know this. Elric cannot have want he desires most. What he desires does not exist. What he desires is dead. All Elric has is sorrow, guilt, malice, hatred. This is all he deserves and all he will ever desire.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “A great and dreadful storm was blowing – and he was the object of the Lasshaar’s attack. He had to retaliate, else his own soul would be wrenched from him by the Giants of the Wind and flung to the air spirits, to be borne for eternity on the winds of the world. Then his voice would moan like a banshee around the cold peaks of high ice-clothed mountains for ever – lost and lonely. His soul would be damned to travel with the four winds wherever their caprice might bear it, knowing no rest.”

66. “A great and dreadful storm was blowing – and he was the object of the Lasshaar’s attack. He had to retaliate, else his own soul would be wrenched from him by the Giants of the Wind and flung to the air spirits, to be borne for eternity on the winds of the world. Then his voice would moan like a banshee around the cold peaks of high ice-clothed mountains for ever – lost and lonely. His soul would be damned to travel with the four winds wherever their caprice might bear it, knowing no rest.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “Everything may exist for a while – even justice. But the true state of the universe is anarchy. It is the mortal’s tragedy that he can never accept this.”

67. “Everything may exist for a while – even justice. But the true state of the universe is anarchy. It is the mortal’s tragedy that he can never accept this.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.”

68. “I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “We are wary of you, Elric. Even if we allowed you to lead us again you would take your own doomed path and us with you. There is no future here for myself and my men.”

69. “We are wary of you, Elric. Even if we allowed you to lead us again you would take your own doomed path and us with you. There is no future here for myself and my men.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “If your people spent less time maintaining their own devalued myths about themselves and more upon studying the world as it is I think your city would have a greater chance of surviving. As it is, the place is crumbling beneath the weight of its own degraded fictions. The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid.”

70. “If your people spent less time maintaining their own devalued myths about themselves and more upon studying the world as it is I think your city would have a greater chance of surviving. As it is, the place is crumbling beneath the weight of its own degraded fictions. The legends which offer a race their sense of pride and history eventually become putrid.”

— Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock Quote: “Elric and his companions swung themselves on to their horses as, with a frightful multivoiced scream, the dead lords were swallowed by the earth, returning to the depths from which they had been summoned.”

71. “Elric and his companions swung themselves on to their horses as, with a frightful multivoiced scream, the dead lords were swallowed by the earth, returning to the depths from which they had been summoned.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “The merchants were already regretting their haste in contacting the albino. They had a feeling that not only were the legends true – but they did not do justice to the strange-eyed man they wished to employ.”

72. “The merchants were already regretting their haste in contacting the albino. They had a feeling that not only were the legends true – but they did not do justice to the strange-eyed man they wished to employ.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “That the world forgets me is all I ask,” Elric sighed.”

73. “That the world forgets me is all I ask,” Elric sighed.”

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Michael Moorcock Quote: “That night they slept restlessly and, as he had predicted, Elric screamed agonizingly in his turbulent, terror-filled sleep and he called a name which made Shaarilla’s eyes fill with pain and jealousy. Wide-eyed in his grim sleep, Elric seemed to be staring at the one he named, speaking other words in a sibilant language which made Shaarilla block her ears and shudder.”

74. “That night they slept restlessly and, as he had predicted, Elric screamed agonizingly in his turbulent, terror-filled sleep and he called a name which made Shaarilla’s eyes fill with pain and jealousy. Wide-eyed in his grim sleep, Elric seemed to be staring at the one he named, speaking other words in a sibilant language which made Shaarilla block her ears and shudder.”

— Michael Moorcock

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