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> [“You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/you-piss-off-a-bard-and-forget-about-putting-a-curse-on-you-he-might/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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> [“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/now-as-i-understand-it-the-bards-were-feared-they-were-respected-but/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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## More by Alan Moore

> [I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-think-that-storytelling-and-creation-are-very-close-to-what-the/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/to-some-degree-satanism-is-purely-a-kind-of-disease-of-christianity/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/there-has-been-a-rather-unpleasant-sensibility-apparent-in-frank/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-felt-if-i-m-going-to-react-i-might-as-well-over-react/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/come-dry-your-eyes-for-you-are-life-rarer-than-a-quark-and/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/now-everything-is-wonderful-and-hazardous-and-nothing-s-hypothetical/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/if-you-look-at-that-incredible-burst-of-fantastic-characters-that/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/in-many-ways-my-entire-graphic-novel-career-was-a-long-diversion/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-was-kind-of-a-selfish-child-who-always-wanted-things-his-way-and-i/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/magic-is-a-state-of-mind-it-is-often-portrayed-as-very-black-and/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/above-great-constellations-wheeled-to-which-our-bonfire-sparks/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“You're my only remaining link to the world”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/you-re-my-only-remaining-link-to-the-world/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/nothing-ends-adrian-nothing-ever-ends/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/on-the-one-occasion-where-i-did-try-writing-a-screenplay-i-found-the/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/the-clothes-you-re-wearing-the-room-the-house-the-city-that-you-re-in/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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