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• It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

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  Years, Style, Faces

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

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  Reality, Ideas, Mind

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

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  Book, Dark, Different

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

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  Lonely, Reflection, Men

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

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• It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

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  Dc Comics, Laughing, Sides

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

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  Hands, Scum Of The Earth, Wish

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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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  Long, Empires, Fingers

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• Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

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  Kings, Dark, Blow

  "Fictional character: Evey Hammond". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

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  Comic Art, Rorschach, Faces

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

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• All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

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  Bad Day, Men, Dc Comics

  "Batman: The Killing Joke". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1988.

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• Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

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  Hippie, Would Be, Fandoms

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• I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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  Brother, Dragons, Black

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

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  May, Used, Conversation

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• Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

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  Real, Taken, Long

  Alan Moore (1987). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

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• Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

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  Thinking, Important, Consciousness

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• For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

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  Certain, One Thing

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• I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.

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  Morning, Smell, Victory

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• The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

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  Reason, Event Horizon, Lacking

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

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• I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

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  Over It, Edges

  "V for Vendetta: the man behind the mask". Interview with David Mapstone, www.channel4.com. January 11, 2012.

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• I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

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  Lonely, Pain, Solitude

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• Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

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  Gun, Plot, Reason Why

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• Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

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  Voice, Silence, Generations

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• The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

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  Dusk, Conscience

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• I have so very much. I have so very little.

  Alan Moore

  Littles

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

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• Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.

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  Whim, Murderer

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