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The Mad God's Amulet

The Mad God's Amulet

The Mad God's Amulet is a fantasy novel by English writer Michael Moorcock, first published in 1968 as Sorcerer's Amulet. The novel is the second in the four-volume The History of the Runestaff.


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“The hardest compromise to make is when you decide to appear to compromise. Often the deception becomes the reality long before you realize it.”

Source: Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160), The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

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“I would waste my rhetoric if I tried, for men are greedy and will not see the truth for the gleam of coin.”

Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160)
The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

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