Grant Morrison Quotes - Page 2

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• X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.

  Grant Morrison

  Teenager, Struggle, Past

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• The world gets more like Disneyland every day, and it's the same the other way round. I can't explain what I know. Try explaining RED to a DOG and see how fast he gets bored.

  Grant Morrison

  Dog, Bored, Trying

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• The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate.

  Grant Morrison

  Christian, Mother, Stars

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• A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.

  Grant Morrison

  Reading, Player, Dvds

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• I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

  Grant Morrison

  Jobs, Men, Expectations

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

  Grant Morrison

  Writing, Needs, Sculpture

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• A bullet in the right place can change the world.

  Grant Morrison

  World, Bullets, Changing The World

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• If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

  Grant Morrison

  Spiritual, Ocean, Self

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.415, Random House

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• Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? - The Joker

  Grant Morrison

  Madness, Enough

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• Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there's little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don't also buy a lottery ticket.

  Grant Morrison

  Winning, Magic, Desire

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• Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

  Grant Morrison

  Mirrors, Remember, Made

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• It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.

  Grant Morrison

  Perception, Theatre, May

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• And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

  Grant Morrison

  People, Way, Ends

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• Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

  Grant Morrison

  Ideas, Stronger, Bombs

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.15, Random House

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• In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.

  Grant Morrison

  Struggle, Angel, Warrior

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.48, Random House

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• When ["Wonder Woman" creator William Moulton] Marston died in 1947, they got rid of the pervy elements, and instantly sales plummeted. Wonder Woman should be the most sexually attractive, intelligent, potent woman you can imagine. Instead she became this weird cross between the Virgin Mary and Mary Tyler Moore that didn't even appeal to girls.

  Grant Morrison

  Girl, Intelligent, Elements

  "Grant Morrison's Playboy Interview, And The Argument For Change In Comic Books [Op-Ed]" by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

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  Reality, Distinction, Circumstances

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• Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

  Grant Morrison

  Lying, Abandon

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• The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

  Grant Morrison

  War, Perfect, Needs

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• Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.

  Grant Morrison

  Jesus, People, Love Everyone

  Source: collider.com

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• It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.

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  Distance, Stupid, Night

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• One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

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  Treason, Commit, Highest

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• We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to talk about how we all might feel on that day of great power, and great responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Hopeful, Superhero

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• Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy.

  Grant Morrison

  Crazy, Mean, White

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• I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.

  Grant Morrison

  People, Labels, Feels Right

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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