Redefine the terms by which Man views the world, and thus eventually you redefine the world itself.
Quotes from The City in the Autumn Stars — Michael Moorcock
born 1939 England
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Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed.
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I guessed he experienced the terrible confusion of a true solipsist when the outer world impinges.
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“It’s never ‘should’ with engineers, my old friend, but ‘how’? Have you not learned that much?”
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You are martyred, as woman is ever martyred, particularly if she seeks her own power.
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An unquestioned creed is a noose about the throat of Reason.
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Destiny was apparently a word describing an individual’s desperate need for certainty.
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My instinct shouted “Conspiracy” but my head reasoned “Coincidence”.
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Better wicked Lucifer for a master, thought I, than a pious Tyrant!
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He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Moorcock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.