Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Michael Moorcock
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  1. I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

  2. Time is the enemy of identity

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  4. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one... And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored...

  5. Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?

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