“You’re as worthless as one of that decrepit mob. Lucifer has rejected you. Now mankind rejects you. Have the good taste, Sir, to accept a fact!”

— Michael Moorcock , book The City in the Autumn Stars

Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 408)

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English writer, editor, critic 1939

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