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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| dd902ac | I grow old on my bitterness. | Anne Sexton | ||
| d697531 | Love! That red disease -- | Anne Sexton | ||
| 66f7793 | I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 66b3460 | His little black-and-white cat with the black-and-white wings would fly through the rooms sometimes, but most often it would be discovered sleeping somewhere where it was most inconvenient for it to sleep. And | Michael Moorcock | ||
| c81b8d3 | It is our firm belief that we shall one day learn the plan of the entire multiverse and travel at will from Sphere to Sphere, from realm to realm, from world to world, travel through the great clouds of shifting, multicoloured stars, the tumbling planets in all their millions, through galaxies that swarm like gnats in a summer garden, and rivers of light-glory beyond glory-pathways of moonbeams between the roaming stars. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| a935d59 | I have hated hypocrisy and deception all my life, yet all my life I have been victim to it. That is the terrible irony. | maxim | Michael Moorcock | |
| 14e2c21 | Once, it was said, the whole city had been sentient, the most intelligent being in the universe, but now it was senile and even its memories were fragmented. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| f00543c | But I tell you this, Sepiriz--given the opportunity I shall make that god rue his homecoming, for he has done the one thing that can move me to real anger. And the anger of Elric of Melnibone and his sword Stormbringer can destroy the world!" Sepiriz" | Michael Moorcock | ||
| fc4762f | He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 9725033 | they are a most depressed and depressing group, for they are all, you see, exiles or refugees or travelers between the worlds who lost their way and never found it again. No-one lives in Ameeron by choice." "A veritable City of the Damned." "As the poet might remark, aye." Rackhir offered Elric a sardonic wink. "But I sometimes think all cities are that." | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 04e274e | On such ventures as these one is inclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream. | michael moorcock | ||
| 2a47128 | Be wary of this devil-blade, Moonglum. It kills the foe - but savours the blood of friends and kinfolk most. | stormbringer | Michael Moorcock | |
| 2c71157 | Law and Chaos?" I said. "They're not the same as good and evil, I'm told." "Merciful heavens, no! Not at all. Not at all. Evil is a cruel and selfish thing. Chaos can be wild and generous, and just as some Lords of Law are self-sacrificing and concerned for others, so are some Lords of Chaos." | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 69954e9 | The last Melnibonean thinks of his people's history and legends, and he tells his human friends some of what he knows and one day a human scribe will write these remembered words which will become in turn the foundation for whole cycles of myths, whole volumes of legend and superstition, so that a grain of a grain of prehuman memory is carried over to us, blood to blood, life to life, And the cycles turn and spin and intersect at unpredicta.. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 6c08175 | and then, from that dungeon in the West, There rises up a melody, beguiling and forlorn. It is the sweet, sad, self-deceiving murderer's song, And it will not end 'til morn . . .' -- Wheldrake, The Prisoners | Michael Moorcock | ||
| bf5e248 | Tanelorn had taken many forms in her endless existence, but all those forms, save one, had been beautiful. | fantasy | Michael Moorcock | |
| 3fc91d5 | Because the Eternal Champion sequence contains comedies does not mean that I am satirising those stories which are tragic and romantic. We're diverse creatures and for me the Eternal Champion must reflect and embrace that diversity. Chaos Theory, perhaps the most important intellectual advance in many years, suggests that in diversity we flourish and the fewer choices we have the poorer are our chances of survival. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| d17f27f | When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 91d6d89 | You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning beings. | misery reason | Michael Moorcock | |
| a354610 | women of exotic appearance. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| f0da8fa | Who told you that the world was just?' Elric | Michael Moorcock | ||
| e867503 | Relaxed, I lit a spliff. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 988eb60 | 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.. | faith god life philosophy religion | Michael Moorcock | |
| 9ca274e | Oh, my beauty! Oh, my love. Soon your loins shall live--and throb to my pounding dork! Ah! Ah! | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 0c17cdb | It is a woman's nature to be constant -- to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 42fa819 | 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 .. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 0e0d555 | 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" | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 83badb6 | We are friends to Death, but not His servants. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 0cbaf55 | 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 .. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 5431424 | 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." -- | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 17afc6e | 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. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| 6ab2299 | 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. | Michael Moorcock | ||
| e27661a | 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!" | Michael Moorcock | ||
| ba35507 | Although I have never pretended to be a great fisherman, it was always important to me that I was a fisherman and looked like one, especially when fishing with my brother. | Norman Maclean | ||
| aff3a64 | Old Rawhide woke up and handed Paul the bottle of 3-7-77. "Have a snort," she said. Paul took her hand and moved it around to where she was offering the drink to Neal. As I said, for several reasons, including our father, Paul and I did not drink when we fished. Afterwards, yes, in fact, as soon as our wet clothes were off and we could stand on them instead of the pine needles one of us would reach for the glove compartment in the car where.. | Norman Maclean | ||
| db168b9 | Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on. | Norman Maclean | ||
| aadbebe | Perhaps we always wondered which of us was tougher, but, if boyhood questions aren't answered before a certain point in time, they can't ever be raised again. So we returned to being gracious to each other, as the wall | Norman Maclean | ||
| 01a40c8 | Sometimes all you have left to win with is the knowledge of why you're taking the beating and the realization that nobody else is going to save you from it. | Norman Maclean | ||
| c0729ef | He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after. | Norman Maclean | ||
| b7670d0 | The disjuncture from politics, on the other hand, springs from something which concerns all these poets: the shattered nature of Scottish consciousness, which isn't a low flat floor of peasant culture on which all stand together but a wild junk-yard of high culture fragments, English imports, oral traditions of 'the Scots commons' and proletarian 'socialist realism' from the thirties. | Neal Ascherson | ||
| e249b16 | After I caught these two, I quit. They made ten, and the last three were the finest fish I ever caught. They weren't the biggest or most spectacular fish I ever caught, but they were three fish I caught because my brother waded across the river to give me the fly that would catch them and because they were the last fish I ever caught fishing with him. After | Norman Maclean | ||
| 36a591c | Conservationists, it seems, are dedicated to protecting the weak and vulnerable, the endangered and the abused. Nature generally promotes the strong and the wily, the resilient and versatile. | Fred Pearce | ||
| 42d7ef8 | I write regularly for OnEarth and OnEarth.org, the publications of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and for my updating of the big-picture ideas about the aridity of the West I relied on the up-to-the-minute reporting of my colleagues at that magazine, particularly that of Michael Kodas on the western fires. For a larger synthesis of current and coming climate changes I looked toward Fred Pearce's When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--the D.. | David Gessner | ||
| b16e660 | What can it mean, 150 years after Darwin, to say that some species or communities are good and some are bad? | Fred Pearce |