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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

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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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Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.
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My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
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The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
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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.
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I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.
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Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
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