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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
Alan Moore
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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.
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Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, I'm a Liar, right there on the dust jacket.
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Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
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You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.
Alan Moore
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.
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London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
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We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
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For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.
Alan Moore
I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.
Alan Moore
Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.
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Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.
Alan Moore
Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.
Alan Moore
With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.
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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
Alan Moore
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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The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.
Alan Moore
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
Alan Moore
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.
Alan Moore
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
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.
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