Alan Moore quotes - page 3

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat. (Alan Moore)
Love your rage, not your cage. View quote
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. View quote
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A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? View quote
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There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet. View quote
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The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us. View quote
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Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. View quote
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What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty? View quote
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Everybody has their story to tell. View quote
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We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. View quote
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Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there...a clock without a craftsman. (Alan Moore)
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace. View quote
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...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you? View quote
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The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws. View quote
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Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. View quote
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You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it. View quote
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Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal? View quote
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No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise. View quote
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Never despair. Never surrender. View quote
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If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice. View quote
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Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? (Alan Moore)
Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers. View quote
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I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time. View quote
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How can two people hate so much without knowing each other? View quote
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While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. View quote
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