Alan Moore Quotes

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• Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
• There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go…
• Ideas are bulletproof.
• I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote…
• I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people…
• Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate…
• There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
• Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss…
• Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our…
• Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
• The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when…
• I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.
• If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.
• To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 the…
• To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
• War is a perversion of sex.

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