Alan Moore quote: "Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place? Etrigan: Think you God built this place, wishing man ill and not lusts uncontrolled or swords unsheathed? Not God, my friend. The truth's more hideous still: These halls were carved by men while yet they breathed. God is no parent or policeman grim dispensing treats or punishments to all. Each soul climbs or descends by its own whim. He mourns, but He cannot prevent their fall. We suffer as we choose. Nothing's amiss. All torments are deserved..."

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
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I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
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There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
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War is a perversion of sex.
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If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When y...
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Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would pr...
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Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language...
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un...
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To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christi...
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In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of i...
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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
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Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir...
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Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical ch...
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All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
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Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in...
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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
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The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its or...
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Eve: All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? ALAN MOORE

Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas o...
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Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...
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You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Ha...
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The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is t...
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There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
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But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do...
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Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they ...
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It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, ...
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Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what...
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The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made...
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They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.
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Love your rage, not your cage.
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God is in the rain.
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I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care, I am me....
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Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their powe...
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Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...
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I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragi...
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Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
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Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the ...
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Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
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Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found som...
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Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybo...
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Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are ...
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People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
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I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
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Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would lis...
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War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are ...
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I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the b...
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I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sw...
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The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you...
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In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, a...
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I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. ...
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Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a p...
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The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a con...
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Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's gett...
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Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I w...
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I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it t...
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I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can real...
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I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or ...
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If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish it...
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A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; t...
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All culture must have arisen from cult.
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In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at hea...
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I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish....
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I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coh...
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The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not ...
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Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certai...
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One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of ...
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I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many ...
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There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
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Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
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Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meanin...
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Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexua...
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I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communica...
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Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, i...
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If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.
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I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day...
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As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illu...
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I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thou...
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Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' struc...
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No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before t...
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I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, &...
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Our world just ended right then,
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Our family has slaved away out here for 40 years. We want to be able to maximize our profits when we...
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He was my best friend,
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For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is t...
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It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to creat...
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Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed...
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I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.
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Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.
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Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...
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His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, ...
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Listening to her spooling out impractical and transcendental picture-concepts like a hyperventilatin...
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Much of magic as I understand it in the Western occult tradition is the search for the Self, with a ...
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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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My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragi...
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Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and ma...
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The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while tha...
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In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do wa...
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I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we w...
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Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there...
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LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kin...
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In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly excee...
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VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Un...
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