Alan Moore Quotes

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• The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Comforting, Banking

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• I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

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• Roses are red Violets are blue Everything's possible Nothing is true.

  Alan Moore

  Blue, Rose, Red

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• My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Romantic, Cowboy

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• It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need

  Alan Moore

  Inspirational, Jobs, Artist

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• Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

  Alan Moore

  Spiritual, Perception, Consciousness

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• In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

  Alan Moore

  Order, Lust, Desire

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• People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

  Alan Moore

  Government, People, Accountability

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• There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

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• Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

  Alan Moore

  Love Is

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• You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

  Alan Moore

  Honesty, Long, Wearing A Mask

  "Fictional character: Gordon Deitrich". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

  Alan Moore

  Home, Intellect

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• As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

  Alan Moore

  People, Wave, Desperate

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• Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Hero, Cheer Up

  "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.

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• Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Consciousness

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• There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

  Alan Moore

  Law, Two, Mind

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• Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.

  Alan Moore

  Running, Shapes, Rats

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• Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Men, Simple

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• Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, Flesh, Mask

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• All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

  Alan Moore

  Stars, Photograph, Old Photographs

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

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• If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

  Alan Moore

  Light, Able, Outlaw

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• There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

  Alan Moore

  Past, Jewels, Design

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• Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

  Alan Moore

  Dancing, Forever, Machines

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• If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

  Alan Moore

  Mad, Matter, Ifs

  "Moore's murderer" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 01, 2002.

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• Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

  Alan Moore

  Humor, Comedian, Realizing

  "Fictional character: Edward Blake". "Watchmen", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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