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While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all?
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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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When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
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This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
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I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.
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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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Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.
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I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that.
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My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
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I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
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The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn't caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.
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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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I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
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The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
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I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.
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I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
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I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
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Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
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Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.
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