Top 100 Grant Morrison Quotes
#1. Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.
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#2. Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.
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#3. I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.
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#5. I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.
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#6. I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.
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#8. The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.
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#9. Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.
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#10. It's always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.
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#11. It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.
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#12. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.
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#13. He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' ... and then he opened his eyes.
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#14. It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.
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#15. It's mostly just you have to convince yourself that there's nothing else in the room but John Lennon and suddenly things start John Lennon-ing!
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#16. It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
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#17. I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while.
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#19. All I know is that you won't come back until they're all dead. 'Eternity.' Every last one of them. Every man. Every woman. Every child. Global massacre. I dream about that day. A planet of corpses
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#20. Routine is important, i think.a good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.
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#21. The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.
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#22. Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
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#24. When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?
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#25. Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.
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#26. Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
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#27. I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.
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#28. A thought robot activated by the tremendous energies unleashed during collisions of fundamental opposing qualities. A new fusion process powered by ... 'dualites'? No. There are no dualities. Only symmetries. Final Crisis: Superman Beyond
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#29. We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.
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#30. There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.
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#31. Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism.
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#32. All it takes is one wrong turn. And there's always one wrong turn.
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#33. And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back
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#34. I love 'Batman.' I love the Adam West 'Batman.' I love the animated 'Batman.' The character of Batman can encompass any interpretation, which is what makes that character so brilliant and why it's survived so many different media.
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#35. It's not so much that history is simply cyclical, it seems to progress via recursive, repeated fractal patterns with minute variations.
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#36. Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.
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#37. We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.
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#38. We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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#39. Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.
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#40. All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ...
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#41. So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.
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#42. The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.
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#43. I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.
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#44. Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.
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#45. I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.
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#46. Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.
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#47. Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.
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#48. Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.
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#49. Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.
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#50. I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.
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#51. Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.
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#53. Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.
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#54. The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.
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#55. The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?
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#56. I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.
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#58. I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.
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#59. I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.
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#60. Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.
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#61. Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker
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#62. Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.
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#63. And I ask him why he cuts his arms with a razor. Just fo feel. Just to feel something.
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#64. I really think this is it...
Third time lucky.
This is the one...
...this is going to change everything.
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#65. Don't patronize me or I'll break your face - Damian Wayne (Prime Earth)
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#66. Einstein was wrong! IM the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!
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#67. Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
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#68. I won't tell you again! Don't look back! In hell you never look back!
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#69. Kipling: Where's your sense of humor?
Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it ...
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#70. I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
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#71. Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.
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#72. Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.
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#73. The multiverse has natural defenses none of you could have imagined. No one %$%$ with the judge of all evil.
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#74. I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.
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#75. There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.
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#76. He can survive anywhere. Anytime. Surviving is what he does.
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#77. Amid all the bangs and the drama and the grand passions, it's kindness and just ordinary goodness that stands out in the end.
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#79. If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
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#80. I should say I am far more cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It's only a doll house after all. Anyway, I don't mind. I like dolls.
Particularly the live ones.
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#81. Batman knew what it was like to trip balls without seriously losing his shit, and that savoir faire added another layer to his outlaw sexiness and alluring aura of decadence and wealth.
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#82. The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
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#83. One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
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#84. Cassandra Nova impersonating Xavier: Imagine the responsibility of all that destructive potential. The power to crack the firmament and extinguish suns ... Imagine that in the wrong hands.
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#85. Of course I'm a threat. Why? Did you think for a moment that I wasn't? - Emma Frost
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#86. I think any writer coming on to 'Batman' should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.
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#87. I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.
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#88. These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.
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#89. Sometimes it's only madness that makes us what we are.
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#90. A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries
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#91. Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.
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#92. Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.
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#93. Doomed planet.
Desperate scientists.
Last hope.
Kindly couple.
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#94. The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.
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#95. Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.
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#96. I don't ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it's not my primary concern when I start a story.
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#97. I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity
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#98. Animal Man: 'Listen, just tell me one thing: am I REAL or what?'
Grant Morrison: 'Of COURSE you're real! We wouldn't be here talking if you weren't real.
'You existed long before I wrote about you and, if you're lucky, you'll still be young when I'm old or dead.
'You're more real than I am.
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#99. I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
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#100. I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.
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