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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.
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inspirational
favourite-quote
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Alan Moore |
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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 you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
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inspirational
favourite-quote
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Alan Moore |
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VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
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motto
latin
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Alan Moore |
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It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
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war
peace
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Alan Moore |
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Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
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sex
erotic
porn
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Alan Moore |
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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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history
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Alan Moore |
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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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Alan Moore |
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The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.
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ending
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Alan Moore |
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You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. He knew affection and tenderness but only briefly. Eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. Is that it, Evey? Is t..
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Alan Moore |
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Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
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freedom
rights
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Alan Moore |
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In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.
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anxiety
conservatism
delusion
uncertainty
psychology
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Alan Moore |
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Anarchy wears two faces, both creator and destroyer. Thus destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators then can build another world. Rubble, once achieved, makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable. Let's drink their..
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Alan Moore |
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But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? It came true. You're lookin' at it.
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freedom
inspirational
watchmen
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Alan Moore |
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
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authority
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Alan Moore |
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All this riot and uproar, V... is this Anarchy? Is this the Land of Do-As-You-Please? No. This is only the land of take-what-you-want. Anarchy means "without leaders", not "without order". With anarchy comes an age or ordnung, of true order, which is to say voluntary order... this age of ordung will begin when the mad and incoherent cycle of verwirrung that these bulletins reveal has run its course... This is not anarchy, Eve. This is cha..
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fix
chaos
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Alan Moore |
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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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life
under-the-hood
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Alan Moore |
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If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning. They're right. It does. However much you beg it to stop. It turns and lets grenadine spill over the horizon, sends hard bars of gold through my window and I wake up and feel happy for three seconds and then I remember. It turns and tips people out of their beds and into their cars, their offices, an avalanche ..
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mourning
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Alan Moore |
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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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Alan Moore |
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I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! 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. You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up as a flying rat? You had a bad day, and it drove you as crazy as everybody else... Only ..
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realisation
genius
radical
insanity
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Alan Moore |
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We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
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Alan Moore |
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It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey a..
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silence
shock
revolution
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Alan Moore & David Lloyd |
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I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.
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Alan Moore |
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Evey: Who are you? V. : Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey: Well I can see that. V. : Of course you can, I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. Evey: Oh, right. V. : But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this drama..
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Alan Moore |
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Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
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Alan Moore |
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See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof, and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moon light... stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend didn't ..
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Alan Moore |
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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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time
fiction
photographs
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Alan Moore |
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Everybody has their story to tell.
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Alan Moore |
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Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
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reality
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Alan Moore |
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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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Alan Moore |
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There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.
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Alan Moore |
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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. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent To blow up the King and Parli'ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England's overthrow; By God's providence he was catch'd With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God sav..
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gunpowder
november
treason
king
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Alan Moore |
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A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
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life
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Alan Moore |
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Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away...forever." The Joker"
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Alan Moore |
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I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.
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Alan Moore |
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Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. "The Past Tense," I suppose you'd call it. Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss... the next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten...
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Alan Moore |
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No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.
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Alan Moore |
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I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.
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Alan Moore |
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With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty
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Alan Moore |
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Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.
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Alan Moore |
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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.
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alex-jones
young-men
confirmation-bias
conspiracy
conspiracy-theories
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Alan Moore |
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How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?
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hate
joker
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Alan Moore |
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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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Alan Moore |
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Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there...a clock without a craftsman.
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watchmen
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Alan Moore |
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Never despair. Never surrender.
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Alan Moore |