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Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell. Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has been widely recognised by his peers and by critics. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed.

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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.

Away, Desperate, People, Proletarian, Tidal, Wave

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

Block, Blue, Disorganized, Fall, Shape, Space

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 that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold… that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.

Children, Daughter, Gold, Miracle, Mother, Siring

In countries like the U. S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

Cars, Commercially, Country, Everything, Sex, Snacks

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.

Joke, Lying, Men, See, Simple, Town

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

Cultures, Dark, Gave, Philosophy, Sex, Sexually

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Generations, Masters, People, Voice

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world.

Leave, Please, Save The World, See, World

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.

Thinking, Ideas, Imagination, Thing, Think

I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

Independent, Years, Interesting, Parts, Entity

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

Celebrity, Sign, Signed, Writer

I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I tend to think that if something was derived for one medium, then there's no real immediate reason to think that it's necessarily going to be as good or better if adapted into another one. There have been very good stage plays that have made some very good films. But there are not so many differences between the theater and the cinema as there are between the cinema and, say, reading a book or reading a comic.

Book, Comic, Good, Reading, Real, Think

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.

Everything, Hazardous, Hypothetical, Wonderful

Never despair. Never surrender.

Despair, Surrender, Never Surrender

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Art, Evocation, Language, Magic, Talk, Tend

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.

Regret, Shadow, Steps, Shadows, Step, Complaint

Ideas are bulletproof.

Bulletproof, Change, Ideas

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Boy, Boys, Grammar, Growing, Growing Up, School

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

Beneath, Flesh, Idea, Ideas, Mask

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

Art, Consciousness, Magic, Manipulating, Symbols, Words

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