„I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.“
— Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls
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Michael Moorcock
Data de nascimento: 18. Dezembro 1939
Outros nomes:Μάικλ Μούρκοκ,مایکل مورکوک
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Michael Moorcock é um escritor britânico de ficção científica e fantasia que se manifesta como sendo políticamente vinculado à filosofia anarquista.
Criador do personagem Elric, de Jerry Cornelius e de uma infinidade de outros. Em suas histórias é comum o conceito de Multiverso e o mito do Campeão Eterno.
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„It is many years since I have wielded a weapon larger than a pen, borne anything weightier than a difficult problem in philosophy.“
— Michael Moorcock
Book 3, Chapter 5 “Five Heroes and a Heroine” (p. 467)
„“You have no proof of this,” I said.
“No. But a theory must be tested to be disproved, Mr Bastable.”“
— Michael Moorcock
Book 1, Chapter 8 “A Decision in Cold Blood” (p. 233)
„Here the idea of God has been replaced by the idea of the Future. The two notions are, admittedly, all but identical in the way in which they are self-contradictory and thus always fundamentally confusing to their worshippers, who must look to priests for translation, and so inevitably the priests (or whatever they call them) gradually take power...“
— Michael Moorcock
Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 413)
„“He was a fool,” said Willow calmly to Klein. “There are many who refuse their responsibilities. Fooling themselves they search for a ‘higher ideal’. He was a fool.”
“What are responsibilities?” said Klein laconically. “He knows. Responsibility, my dear, is another word for self-interest. For survival.”
She looked at Klein uncomprehendingly.“
— Michael Moorcock
Chapter 4 (p. 206)
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„There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.“
— Michael Moorcock
Book 1, Chapter 6 “A Haven of Civilization” (p. 214)
„Warlocks and witches debate to determine how to make their broomsticks fly again. But how shall they ever come together in strength? Even if your ideas had any truth, they’re so frequently, by their very character, at odds. Each claims to hold the key to the only wisdom. That’s where natural philosophers, who do not impose what they need to believe (or at least not so readily!) upon the world, but analyze what they see, have the strong advantage.“
— Michael Moorcock
Chapter 9 (p. 310)
„“Are you still afraid?” I asked her.
“No,” she said, “I am thankful. The world has been threatened too long by the extraordinary, the supernatural and the monstrous. I shall be happy enough to smell the pines and hear the song of the thrush. And to be with you, Captain von Bek.”
“The world is still threatened,” I said to her, “but perhaps not by Lucifer. I held her hand tightly.“
— Michael Moorcock
Chapter 18 (p. 166)
„The hardest compromise to make is when you decide to appear to compromise. Often the deception becomes the reality long before you realize it.“
— Michael Moorcock
Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160)
