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I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.
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Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
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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?
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Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.
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My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.
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No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
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