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Who told you that the world was just?' Elric
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Relaxed, I lit a spliff.
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Remember!" she called, as she followed him up the narrow ladders towards the bridge. "It is only a matter of scale and experience. You are not a fraction of the whole. You are a version of the whole! Time will seem to eddy and stall. This is scale. Everything is sentient, but scale alters perception. The time of a tree is not your time." It was as if she shouted to him all she had meant to teach him before this moment. "To the snail the foo..
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faith
religion
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life
philosophy
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Oh, my beauty! Oh, my love. Soon your loins shall live--and throb to my pounding dork! Ah! Ah!
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The authors who gathered around my magazine New Worlds shared my feelings that through literary SF we could regenerate Anglophone fiction. I am glad to say this experiment largely succeeded, so that most of our best-known literary writers employ techniques which we were responsible for developing. The latest Thomas Pynchon novel, Against the Day, as well as work by Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo, Brett Easton Ellis and many, many ..
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Three swift swords for the sisters three; The first shall be of ivory; The second sword's forged of rarest gold; The third shall be cut from a granite fold. The first sword's name is "Just Old Man"; And the second is called "The Urgent Brand"; While the third thirsty sword of that glamour'd three Is the hungry blade named "Liberty". --Ernest Wheldrake, Border Ballads"
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We are friends to Death, but not His servants.
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The moral point of The Eternal Champion is pretty simple but I think it is worth mentioning. Recently, in a radio interview, I was asked if my use of the forces of Law and Chaos was not, after all, merely another version of Tolkien's or Howard's Good and Evil. I replied emphatically--I use the ideas of Law and Chaos precisely because I am suspicious of simplistic notions of good and evil. In my multiverse, Law and Chaos are both legitimate ..
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Gods are but metaphors." said Orland Frank. "As metaphors they might be very acceptable - but they should never be allowed to become beings in their own right." --
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It is ironic that I saved both myself and those I cared for by recalling, at the crucial moment, my identity as an ordinary mortal. There are subtle dangers to the role of hero. I am glad I no longer have to consider them.
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The miserable frequently believe that possession of power for its own sake is what has made others more content. They grab such power in many different ways and remain baffled as to why they are just as miserable as they were to begin with.
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Be warned, gentlemen. I possess a revolver and am an expert shot!" Holmes accepted this news gravely and informed the man that while he understood that an exchange of pistol fire to be something in the nature of an introductory courtesy in Texas, in England it was still considered impolitic to support one's cause by letting off guns in the house. This I found a little hypocritical from one given to target practice in the parlor!"
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It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.
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Everything means nothing--that is the only truth.
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I am already late, I fear. What time is it?""Time? Why the present, of course."
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Perhaps he was old and wise, perhaps he was just old.
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Listening to the conversation, his faith in the stupidity of human nature was fully restored.
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Everything dies eventually--but that shouldn't stop us enjoying life while it is there to be enjoyed.
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Do not thank me for saving your life. You do not realize yet what I have saved it for.
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No denial would convince you," D'Averc smiled, "so I will not offer you one."
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Wild days, wild riders, and the stink of warfare across the world!
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You look ahead.""I look around. Ahead's here already."
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Time to be moving; moves to be timing.
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Technology is potential freedom from brutality.
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Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill?
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The barbarians don't come from outside the walls any more, do they?
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Stagnation's no substitute for stability.
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How many generations need to comply in a fallacy before it becomes accepted as truth?
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Yesterday's underdog is tomorrow's tyrant.
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Better the myth of happiness," Harlequin murmured, "than the myth of despair."
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Irony, Lady Sue, is no substitute for imagination.
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At last the computer had superseded the automobile as the focus for mankind's hopes and fears.
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He realised that Law and Order were not particularly compatible.
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Time was the enemy of identity.
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It's getting late. I must return to my ship or my men will think I've drowned and be celebrating.
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The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.
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Destiny's Champion,Time's Tool.
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Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.
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Your imagination is notoriously poor. Not everyone holds identical ambitions to your own!
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Knowledge ceases to be wisdom when one has no method for making sense or use of what one learns.
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It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe," Jhary said wearily. "So easy."
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Mortals and gods come and go, but nature remains.
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I am dead," said Corum, "and would be grateful if you would allow me to be dead in peace."
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Michael Moorcock |
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Can we break such a law? If we do break our ancient laws, are our customs worth fighting for?"
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