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.”
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.”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (p. 786)
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.”
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.”
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?”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The BL 755 cluster bomb (p. 652)
“Stagnation’s no substitute for stability.”
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?”
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?”
The Cornelius Quartet, The English Assassin (1972)
Source: The Alternative Apocalypse 1 (p. 399)
“Technology is potential freedom from brutality.”
The Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
Source: Beyond the X ecliptic (p. 316)
“Time to be moving; moves to be timing.”
The Cornelius Quartet, A Cure for Cancer (1971)
Source: Beyond the X ecliptic (p. 314)
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?”
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.”
Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)
Source: Book 2, Chapter 2 “The Castle Built of Blood” (p. 320), Corum, The King of the Swords (1971)