Alan Moore Quotes - Page 5

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• 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 made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.

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  Reality, Perception, Language

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• It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

  Alan Moore

  Dc Comics, Laughing, Sides

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

  Alan Moore

  Doors, Dc Comics, Forever

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• 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… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

  Alan Moore

  Block, Fall, Space

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• I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people.

  Alan Moore

  People, Upset, Mouths

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

  Alan Moore

  Bars, Prison, Vendetta

  "Fictional character: V". "V for Vendetta". Comic book series written by Alan Moore, 1982 - 1986.

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• The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

  Alan Moore

  Vaudeville, World, Stage

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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 take the breath away.

  Alan Moore

  Perception, World, Dull

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Purpose

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• 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 them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

  Alan Moore

  Years, Style, Faces

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, World, Expecting

  "Alan Moore Takes League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen To The ’60s". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.

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• 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 them in motion.

  Alan Moore

  Stars, Names, Space

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

  Alan Moore

  Comic Art, Rorschach, Faces

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

  Alan Moore

  Lonely, Reflection, Men

  "Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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• 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 physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Dark, Different

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

  Alan Moore

  May, Used, Conversation

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• You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

  Alan Moore

  Hands, Scum Of The Earth, Wish

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• I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

  Alan Moore

  Brother, Dragons, Black

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

  Alan Moore

  Kings, Dark, Blow

  "Fictional character: Evey Hammond". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

  Alan Moore

  Numbers, Mind, Connections

  "He does it with magic". Interview with Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2000.

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• Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

  Alan Moore

  Gun, Plot, Reason Why

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• Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

  Alan Moore

  Hippie, Would Be, Fandoms

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• They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

  Alan Moore

  Games, Boards, Vendetta

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• In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

  Alan Moore

  Echoes, Pace, Pieces

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