Alan Moore Quotes

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• A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.
• All culture must have arisen from cult.
• Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.
• As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will…
• Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.
• Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
• I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
• I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.
• I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.
• I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.
• I love films that are made with almost no budget.
• I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.
• I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
• I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
• I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
• I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
• I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
• I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that…
• I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the…
• If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

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