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"The barbarians don’t come from outside the walls any more, do they?"
"I watched him while he moved about in the nearby spinney below, bending and straightening, shaking snow from the sticks he found, and for some reason was reminded of the parable of Abraham and his son. Why should one serve a God who demanded such insane loyalty, who demanded that one deny the very humanity He was said to have created?"

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, originally of science fiction and fantasy, who has published many well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction. He has worked as an editor and is also a successful musician. He is best known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, which were a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960
"The barbarians don’t come from outside the walls any more, do they?"
"Stagnation’s no substitute for stability."
"“We can only be kind to one another,” she said, “there is scarcely any alternative if we are to resist chaos.”"
"Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance."
"Tyrants hate original thinking."
"Perhaps he was old and wise, perhaps he was just old."