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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'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
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In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
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For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.
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In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
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Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.
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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
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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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The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.
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I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.
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What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?
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It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
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Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.
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People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'
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It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.
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