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Everything dies eventually-but that shouldn't stop us enjoying life while it is there to be enjoyed. (Michael Moorcock)
I have never had trouble with conflicting interpretations of my work. Once the story is published, it belongs to the reader. View quote
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Listening to the conversation, his faith in the stupidity of human nature was fully restored. View quote
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Perhaps he was old and wise, perhaps he was just old. View quote
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I was thinking of going into the assassination business. You know what a dreamer I am. Would it be too much of a hit and myth operation, do you think? View quote
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Yesterday's underdog is tomorrow's tyrant. View quote
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How many generations need to comply in a fallacy before it becomes accepted as truth? View quote
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Stagnation's no substitute for stability. View quote
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The barbarians don't come from outside the walls any more, do they? View quote
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Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill? View quote
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Technology is potential freedom from brutality. (Michael Moorcock)
Time to be moving; moves to be timing. View quote
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The poor man has sacrificed himself for others, but he could not help resenting them from time to time. View quote
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Chaos delights in creation but swiftly becomes bored with what it creates for it seeks not order or justice or constancy but sensation, entertainment. Sometimes it suits it to create something which you and I would value or find pleasure in. But it is an accident. View quote
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Ultimately, Chaos brings a more profound stagnation than anything it despises in law. It must forever seek more and more sensation, more and more empty marvels, until there is nothing left and it has forgotten what true invention is. View quote
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Such speculation leads us nowhere and everywhere, but it makes no difference to our understanding of our immediate problems. View quote
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Everything may exist for a short while-even justice. But the true state of the universe is anarchy. It is the mortal's tragedy that he can never accept this. View quote
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The sentient may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentient. View quote
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And is adventure and sensation all we should seek, Meliadus?” "Aye-why not? All is chaos, there is no meaning to existence, there is only one advantage to living one's life and that is to discover all the sensations the human mind and body is capable of feeling. View quote
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You fought well and you fought for justice.” "Justice?” Hawkmoon called after him as he left the room. "Is there such a thing?” "It can be manufactured in small quantities,” Fank told him. "But we have to work hard, fight well and use great wisdom to produce just a tiny amount. View quote
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Chaos has her moods and whims, that's all. As I told you, she cannot remain stable. It is in her nature to be forever changing.” "While it is in the nature of Law,” Alisaard explained, "to be forever fixed. The Balance is there to ensure that neither Law nor Chaos ever gain complete ascendancy, for the one offers sterility while the other offers only sensation. (Michael Moorcock)
There could be an end to all this, when the Lords of the Higher Worlds and all the machinery of cosmic mystery shall be no more. And perhaps that is why they fear mortals so much. The secret of their destruction, I suspect, lies in us, though we have yet to realize our own power.” "And do you have a hint of what that power may be, Eternal Champion?” said Alisaard. I smiled. "I think it is simply the power to conceive of a multiverse which has no need of the supernatural, which, indeed, could abolish it if so desired! View quote
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It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe. View quote
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Petersburg socialism seems cold to the likes of our Cossacks, who would rather worship personalities than embrace ideas.” I shared his irony. "You make them sound like Americans. View quote
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What more could you need?” I smiled in self-mockery. "Reassurance, I suppose.” "That must come from your own judgment, from your own testing of your conscience. It is the only kind of reassurance worth having, as I'm sure you would agree. View quote
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