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There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.
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Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
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That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
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I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
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Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
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Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
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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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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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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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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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For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
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