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141 " Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

142 " 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. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

143 " 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. "

― Alan Moore , V for Vendetta

144 " By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. "

― Alan Moore , V for Vendetta

145 " 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 I think most people are good and not bad only because they're scared they might go to jail or hell or someplace. Some guy once said: "Anything done out of fear has no moral value" Well, I think that's right. I figure the only way you can be truly good is if you've tried been good, and you've tried being bad, and being good feels better. "

― Alan Moore , Batman: The Killing Joke

146 " 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 the actors, props and setting, be the apple and the garden both. The player bides his time, awaits his entrance to a drum-roll of igniting binaries. This is the only dance in town, this anaconda tango, this slow spiral up through time from witless dirt to paramecium, from blind mechanic organism to awareness. There, below the birthing stars, Life sways and improvises. Every poignant gesture drips with slapstick; pathos; an unbearably affecting bravery. To dare this stage, this huge and overwhelming venue. Squinting through the stellar footlights, hoping there's an audience, that there's someone out there, but dancing anyway. But dancing anyway. "

― Alan Moore , Snakes and Ladders

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

― Alan Moore , V for Vendetta #1

148 " My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. "

― Alan Moore , Lost Girls, libro 3: Grande y terrible (Lost Girls, #3)

149 " 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 Andromeda. I can see the supernova that Ernst Hartwig discovered in 1885, a century ago. It scintillates, a wink intended for the Trilobites, all long dead. Supernovas are where gold forms; the only place. All gold comes from supernovas. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

150 " 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. "

― Alan Moore , Lost Girls (Lost Girls, #1-3)

Alan Moore QUOTES

151 " 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. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

152 " 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. "

― Alan Moore , Promethea, Vol. 5

153 " I have so very much. I have so very little. "

― Alan Moore , V for Vendetta, Vol. II of X (V for Vendetta, #2)

154 " Who watches the watchmen? "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

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

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

156 " 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... "

― Alan Moore , Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

157 " 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: There's always madness. You can just step outside and close the door, and all those dreadful things that happened, you can lock them away. Madness... is an emergency exit. "

― Alan Moore , Batman: The Killing Joke

158 " Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

159 " 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. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen

160 " As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. "

― Alan Moore , Watchmen