I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.


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Most people find the word Apocalypse, to be a terrifying concept. Checked in the dictionary, it mean...
ALAN MOORE
I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if ...
ALAN MOORE
I've come to the conclusion that what superheroes might be — in their current incarnation, at leas...
ALAN MOORE
When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops...
ALAN MOORE
Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the p...
ALAN MOORE
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
ALAN MOORE
Memories can be vile. Repulsive little brutes, like children I suppose. But can we live without them...
ALAN MOORE
... the most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion...
ALAN MOORE
Things have their forms not only in space, but also in time.
ALAN MOORE
Bond believes we are his pawns. He thinks no-one observes his game. But I am No-One. I observe every...
ALAN MOORE
Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?
ALAN MOORE
Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all
ALAN MOORE
Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...
ALAN MOORE
Fame has replaced the sea as the element of choice for adventure.
ALAN MOORE
Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart......
ALAN MOORE
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
ALAN MOORE
I do prefer to criticise things from a position of ignorance.
ALAN MOORE
You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.
ALAN MOORE
Finally, faced with horrors both intolerable and unavoidable, I chose madness.
ALAN MOORE
Three things, then. Escape, and finding work, and then explaining himself adequately. It was just th...
ALAN MOORE
Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and ab...
ALAN MOORE
Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embed...
ALAN MOORE
Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you yo...
ALAN MOORE
Faith is for sissies who daren't go and look for themselves.
ALAN MOORE
Places don’t stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly h...
ALAN MOORE
Each day and every deed’s eternal, little boy. Live them in such a way that you can bear to live w...
ALAN MOORE
Nite Owl II: But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to...
ALAN MOORE
It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.
ALAN MOORE
If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.
ALAN MOORE
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could ...
ALAN MOORE
Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.
ALAN MOORE
Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
...
ALAN MOORE
When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right...
ALAN MOORE
It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...
ALAN MOORE
No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
ALAN MOORE
See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don'...
ALAN MOORE
Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in ...
ALAN MOORE
Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN
It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE
If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE