“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)

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English writer, editor, critic 1939

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