Alan Moore Quotes

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• 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…
• Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition...
• If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.
• You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
• Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely…
• Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.
• The central question is, is this guy right? Or is he mad? What do you, the reader, think about this? Which struck me as a…
• Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
• There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the…
• They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.
• We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
• American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.
• In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to…
• All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
• None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.
• Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world…
• It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to…
• Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
• We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
• 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…

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