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Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.
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In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.
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American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.
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As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
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If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.
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Love your rage, not your cage.
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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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