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Quotes from The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius — Michael Moorcock

born 1939 England

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Somewhere you can hear them whimpering, as if the evidence of their own mortality were emphasised by the knowledge of other people’s happiness.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

Sometimes he would admit that one form of superstition was as good as another, but he still preferred to rely on the forms he knew.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

Irony, Lady Sue, is no substitute for imagination.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

To the fearful all things are chaotic. That’s how you get religion (and its bastard child, politics).

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

At last the computer had superseded the automobile as the focus for mankind’s hopes and fears.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

As Barrington Bayley had pointed out in his book Structural Dynamism, man was not an intelligent animal. He was an animal with intelligence that he could apply to some, not all, of his activities.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

He realised that Law and Order were not particularly compatible.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

Her face was now a mask of moral outrage. “You talk of fashion while I speak of morality.”
It was true that Jerry had never been able to see much of a difference between the two.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

Time was the enemy of identity.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Moorcock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.