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Them Quotes by Alan Moore
- On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more…
- 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…
- 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…
- I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps…
- I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems…
- If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps…
- In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically…
- Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground,…
- That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.
- 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…
- 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……
- I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing…
- It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us…
- Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world.…
- As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them…
- Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
- The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny…
- There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men...…
- Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them…
- I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set…
- Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened…
- It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster