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Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
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The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]
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Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.
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So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.
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I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.
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Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.
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The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
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I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.
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To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
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It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.
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In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.
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Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.
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Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
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Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.
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War is a perversion of sex.
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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?
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Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.
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The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.
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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.
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Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
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