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When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.


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ALAN MOORE Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
ALAN MOORE Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the ...
ALAN MOORE Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
ALAN MOORE Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found som...
ALAN MOORE Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybo...
ALAN MOORE Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are ...
ALAN MOORE Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of...
THOMAS MOORE People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
ALAN MOORE Love? Sodding, bloody, tossing, bloody, sodding, bloody love? Irrelevant, superfluous, bloody, ruddy...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE What is your name?" asked Lear.
Caius," said Kent.
And whence do you hail?"
From Bonk...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE