Alan Moore Short Quotes

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In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

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Maybe the world.. has run out of room.. for monsters.

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You can't kill a vegetable by shooting it in the head.

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Murder? Don't talk to me about murder. I invented murder!

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

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It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

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We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

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I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

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I like a film where you can see every penny of the budget up there on the screen.

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I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

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As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

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There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

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All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves.

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There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.

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Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

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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.

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The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

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It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

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It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.

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Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

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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 going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

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Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.

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There is a red and angry world.
Red things happen there.
The world eats your wife.
And eats your friends.
It eats all the things that make you human.
And it turns you into a monster.

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There is a kind of synergy between the different forms of work, you'll learn things from one sort of work that will have tremendous application in another. They all tend to pull each other forward.

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In the beginning, there is just universe. There is no us. There is just God in His or Her universe. Then we separate God from the universe until we are trapped in it, in the universe we have created.

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