Source: The Winds of Limbo aka The Fireclown (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 151)
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Source: The Wrecks of Time aka The Rituals of Infinity (1967), Chapter 6, “Klosterheim on a Mountain” (p. 49)
Introduction (p. viii)
The Wrecks of Time aka The Rituals of Infinity (1967)
“Listening to the conversation, his faith in the stupidity of human nature was fully restored.”
Source: The Winds of Limbo aka The Fireclown (1965), Chapter 17 (p. 252)
“Perhaps he was old and wise, perhaps he was just old.”
Source: The Winds of Limbo aka The Fireclown (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 145)
“Some try to understand the world, while others seek to impose their understanding on it.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
Source: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (pp. 790-791)
Source: The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Context: Unfortunately, Mr. Smiles, these latter folk are those least equipped to perform the operation. Like Frankenstein, my dear Mr. Smiles, they produce a monster.
“Better the myth of happiness, than the myth of despair.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (p. 786)
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: Harlequin Invisible: or, the Emperor of China’s Court (p. 761)
“There’s more to life than drugs and sex.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Variant: There’s more than life to drugs and sex. It’s better than nothing.
Source: Harlequin Invisible: or, the Emperor of China’s Court (p. 761)
“Yesterday’s underdog is tomorrow’s tyrant.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: With the flag to Pretoria (p. 738)
“How many generations need to comply in a fallacy before it becomes accepted as truth?”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The BL 755 cluster bomb (p. 652)
“Stagnation’s no substitute for stability.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: Optics for defence (p. 649)
“The barbarians don’t come from outside the walls any more, do they?”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The English Assassin (1972)
Source: The Hill (p. 579)
“Is there anything sadder, I wonder, than an assassin with nobody left to kill?”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The English Assassin (1972)
Source: The Alternative Apocalypse 1 (p. 399)
“Technology is potential freedom from brutality.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
Source: Beyond the X ecliptic (p. 316)
“Time to be moving; moves to be timing.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
Source: Beyond the X ecliptic (p. 314)
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
Source: Ex-bank clerk slave girl in private sin palace (p. 172)
“You think we are in danger there?”
Michael Moorcock book The King of the Swords
Source: Book 3, Chapter 3 “The Conjunction of the Million Spheres” (pp. 379-380), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)
Context: “Danger? It depends what you regard as dangerous. Some wisdom may be dangerous to one man and not to another.”
“It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe.”
Michael Moorcock book The King of the Swords
Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)
Michael Moorcock book The King of the Swords
Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)