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I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end. 'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
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Alan Moore |
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A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
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Alan Moore |
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And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from t..
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Alan Moore |
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4d5a412
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The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.
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Alan Moore |
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Also, please don't think I've forgotten about your outstanding service record, or about all the invaluable contributions that you've made to the company. Fire, the wheel, agriculture..It's an impressive list, old timer. A jolly impressive list. Don't get me wrong. But well...to be frank, we've had our problems , too. There's no getting away from it. Do you know what I think? A lot of it stems from? I'll tell you... It's your basic unwillin..
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Alan Moore |
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Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.
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Alan Moore |
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF NATURE'S MISTAKES! I GIVE YOU... PHYSICALLY , IT HAS A DEFORMED SET OF NOTICE THE SENSE OF THE CLUB-FOOTED AND THE IT'S CERTAINLY NOT FOR THE IS IT? MOST OF , ARE ITS AND NOTIONS OF AND IF TOO MUCH IS PLACED UPON THEM... ... THEY HOW DOES IT , I HEAR YOU ASK? HOW DOES THIS ..
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mankind
men
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Alan Moore |
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Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.
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Alan Moore |
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Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.
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Alan Moore |
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Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.
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Alan Moore |
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The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]
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Alan Moore |
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We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man. A man..
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ideas
life
v-for-vendetta
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Alan Moore |
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e29e53a
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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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captain-metropolis
save-the-world
superhero
watchmen
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Alan Moore |
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552de62
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Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the "vox populi" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only ..
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Alan Moore |
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c93e22c
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The superman exists and he's American.
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dr-manhatan
superman
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Alan Moore |
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Her name is . And she has taught me more as a mistress than [Justice] ever did! She has taught me that is meaningless without . is honest. makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike , .
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Alan Moore |
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Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.
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Alan Moore |
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In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights. What I learned during the frankly ho..
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cia
confirmation-bias
conspiracy
conspiracy-theories
conspiracy-thoeorists
illuminati
males-18-35
mindscape-of-alan-moore
new-world-order
paranoia
pitfalls-of-bad-thinking
the-truth-is
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Alan Moore |
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0e9c609
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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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Alan Moore |
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They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.
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Alan Moore |
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By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
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Alan Moore |
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I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to my parents. I treat my girl right... take her out and buy her stuff. And I go to church every Sunday, But I've decided that just once I wanna do a really bad thing. I mean a really seriously bad thing. 'cause, ya know, like, we're put on this earth with free will. We can choose to do this or that. We can choose to be good or bad. But sometimes..
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good
morality
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Alan Moore |
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8f1c811
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The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and their will are strong enough. I have studied science, art, religion and a hundred different philosophies. Anyone could do as much. By applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possibl..
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meditation
optimism
ozymandias
superheroes
will
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Alan Moore |
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We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high and humanity is so close to the edge... Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive there if you observe rules: Just hang on by fingernails... and never look down.
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Alan Moore |
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In our every cell, furled at the nucleus, there is a ribbon two yards long and just ten atoms wide. Over a hundred million miles of DNA in very human individual, enough to wrap five million times around our world and make the Midgard serpent blush for shame, make even the Ourobouros worm swallow hard in disbelief. This snake-god, nucleotide, twice twisted, scaled in adenine and cytosine, in thymine and in guanine, is a one-man show, will be..
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Alan Moore |
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e2546b1
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I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.
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mankind
men
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Alan Moore |
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a33431c
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For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.
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Alan Moore |
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My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
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Alan Moore |
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Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. "The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha."
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Alan Moore |
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The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park, in 1959. [...] I'm tired of looking at the photograph now. I open my fingers. It falls to the sand at my feet. I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us... All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. [...] It's October, 1985. I'm basking in the two-million-year-old light of An..
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Alan Moore |
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You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
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Alan Moore |
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When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good became too wide and depressing to tolerate, I'd turn to my other great love, which was pulp adventure fiction. Despite the fact that [he] would have had nothing but scorn and loathing for all of those violent and garish magazines, there was a sort of prevailing morality in them that I'm sure he would have responded to. The world of ..
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fiction
morality
pulp-fiction
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Alan Moore |
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I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: "Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says "I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains."
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Alan Moore |
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I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.
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Alan Moore |
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The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend.
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cities
clothes
houses
life
machines
masterpieces
personalities
pretend
romances
rooms
wars
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Alan Moore |
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I have so very much. I have so very little.
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Alan Moore |
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Who watches the watchmen?
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Alan Moore |
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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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Alan Moore |
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06e61b8
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Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely...
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Alan Moore |
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Memories can be vile. Repulsive little brutes, like children I suppose. But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can't face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren't contractually tied down to rationality. There is no sanity clause. So when you find yourself locked down in an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember: Th..
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Alan Moore |
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Walter, is what happened to Kitty Genovese really proof that the whole of mankind is rotten? I think you've been conditioned with a negative worldview. There are good people, too, like... Like you? Me? Oh, well, I wouldn't say that. I... No. You just think it. Think you're 'good people'. Why are you spending so much time with me, Doctor? Uh...well, because I care about you, and because I want to make you well... Other people, down in ..
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Alan Moore |
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5f01047
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Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.
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Alan Moore |
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0f96f81
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For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
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Alan Moore |
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36f7406
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and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.
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rorschach
watchmen
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Alan Moore |