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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: 70
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.
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Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
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I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
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It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.
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Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
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If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.
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If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.
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None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.
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All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
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It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
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I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.
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On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
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I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.
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I have so very much. I have so very little.
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...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
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As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
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There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.
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I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.
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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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There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
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