Quotes by Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock

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.

Age

Fall

Kings

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.

Bullshit

Home

Koalas

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric’s destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Cousin

Destiny

Lying

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 he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

Attention

Soul

Stories

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 does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory’s ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ – people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don’t want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

Character

Thinking

Unhappy Childhood

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

Challenges

Destiny

Taken

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.

Legends

Mad

Mean

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

Champion

Destiny

Fate

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 roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one…And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

Men

Past

Secret

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. 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.

Imperfect World

Opposites

Peace

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Ambition

Atheist

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Brain

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Cages

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Challenges

Champion

Chaos

Character

Children

Conviction

Cousin

Destiny

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Editors

Enemy

Facts

Fall

Fate

Finals

Gun

Heart

Helping

Hero

Home

Ideas

Identity

Imperfect World

Impossible

Kings

Knows

Koalas

Land

Legends

Literary Merit

Logic

Looks

Lying

Mad

Mean

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Names

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Quotes by Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock

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.

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.

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 he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

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

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.

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

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