Alan Moore Quotes

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• We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still…
• To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing,…
• Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
• Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
• It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
• I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.
• Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.
• Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape……
• The superman exists and he's American.
• I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.
• Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.
• Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your…
• The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is…
• As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
• As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an…
• We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
• Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
• I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,…
• I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.
• It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

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