Top 100 Alan Moore Quotes

#1. If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

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#2. 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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#3. In heaven's name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!

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#4. 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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#5. Is it meaningless to apologize?

Never.

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#6. American love - like coke in green glass bottles ... they don't make it anymore.

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#7. Love. His love for Cathy and the kids. That had been one of his protective mantras, he was certain, except love just made things crueller, gave you so much more to lose.

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#8. A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

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#9. When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

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#10. No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.

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#11. Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

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#12. I'm a very smug show-off at heart. I'm altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous. I'm not in it for money, I'm just in it for the glory.

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#13. And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now ... or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he'll be pounding and ... will there be blood? I like to imagine so. Yes, I rather think there will be blood. Lots of blood. Blood in extraordinary quantities.

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#14. The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

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#15. MADNESS IS THE EMERGENCY EXIT...

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#16. Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

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#17. I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

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#18. Three things, then. Escape, and finding work, and then explaining himself adequately. It was just those areas he had trouble with. Everything else, he was all right about.

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#19. In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past

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#20. We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

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#21. There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

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#22. You have to impress him! Be independent and plucky, but often do things that are moronic and out of character!

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#23. I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

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#24. Everything is connected.

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#25. Bond believes we are his pawns. He thinks no-one observes his game. But I am No-One. I observe everything, and to play with Nemo is to play games with Destruction.

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#26. There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

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#27. Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there ... a clock without a craftsman.

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#28. 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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#29. In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

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#30. Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

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#31. Fame has replaced the sea as the element of choice for adventure.

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#32. I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

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#33. Never despair. Never surrender.

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#34. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.

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#35. The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

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#36. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

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#37. Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

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#38. Ideas of self, ideas of world and family and nation, articles of scientific or religious faith, your creeds and currencies: one by one, the beloved structures falling.

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#39. I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

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#40. Rorshach's journal. October 16, 1985. Been waiting in Moloch's fridge for three hours. Ate two raw eggs and packet of honey mustard sauce. Just realized I am sitting on baking soda. Freezing ass off. Really have to take leak.

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#41. A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

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#42. Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

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#43. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

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#44. 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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#45. Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.

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#46. Laurie:
Her pain, her fears, her whole life, y' know? I mean, ordinary people, right? All the things that happen to them... doesn't that move you more than a bunch of rubble?

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#47. I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

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#48. I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

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#49. strength to unity unity through faith

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#50. Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat.

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#51. Life isn't divided into genres

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#52. 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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#53. I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.

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#54. I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

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#55. For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

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#56. Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family.

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#57. We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

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#58. My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

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#59. There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

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

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#61. They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

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#62. IF YOU HURT INSIDE, GET CERTIFIED, AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD ...
DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!

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#63. Information is the only thing that can be lost in an imperishable universe. Mind is the only thing that truly dies.

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#64. Okay. There it is. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hoped to have done.

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#65. 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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#66. Books require titles; reading them doesn't

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#67. I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

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#68. I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

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#69. I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

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#70. Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.

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#71. machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

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#72. It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

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#73. Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

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#74. I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. Who watches the watchmen?

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#78. 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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#79. She finds herself suspicious of religious zeal that has a business plan.

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#80. I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

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#81. They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

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#82. With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth ... But we as gardeners, must beware ... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin ... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

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#83. There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there.

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#84. I thought, Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!

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#85. The brightest has a gathering of people stood about it. Trapped beneath their heels, stretched shadows shy back from the flames, yet do not jump or dance. What are they burning there, so still by night? My

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#86. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty

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#87. His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him.

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#88. inverted memories of this immediate revelation, memories that in some puzzling fashion one might have before their subject had occurred. The

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#89. 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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#90. Delightfully, however, even phrases of world-ending awesome fury, spoken through a split lip, were quite funny.

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#91. I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.

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#92. People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

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#93. Places don't stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly how it did before, it's somewhere else.

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#94. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers ... and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say.

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#95. The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

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#96. 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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#97. You're my only remaining link to the world

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#98. I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

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#99. To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

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#100. 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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