Alan Moore quotes

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. (Alan Moore)
Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. View quote
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All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves. View quote
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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. View quote
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Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. View quote
Alan Moore
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. View quote
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There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. View quote
Alan Moore
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception. View quote
Alan Moore
Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. View quote
Alan Moore
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. View quote
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Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. (Alan Moore)
There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof. View quote
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I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it. View quote
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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. View quote
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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. View quote
Alan Moore
I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it. View quote
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I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that. View quote
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I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium. View quote
Alan Moore
Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. View quote
Alan Moore
Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. View quote
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. (Alan Moore)
The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians. View quote
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I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size. View quote
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There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. View quote
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My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free. View quote
Alan Moore