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Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.
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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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Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.
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