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I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Adaptation Almost Any Better Come Couple Fear Good Increasingly Majority Nothing Obviously Original Perhaps Pointless Sweeping Than Them Vast Vast Majority Work

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Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Also Always Benefits Bring Disasters Many Sword Technology Will

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For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Act Art Between Create Difference Hat Like Little Magic Magician Me Nothing Rabbit Something Stage Ultimate Very

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There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Bound Important Inside Just Laws Live Material Material World Mind Our Physics Two Which World Worlds

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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.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Bit British Comics Everything Greatly Improved Jim Like Mindset Outset Prevailing Progressive Psychedelic Radical Right Thought Were Would

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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Books Childish Comic Comic Books Films Illiterate Lazy Literate Lot Most Paint Unlike Very

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One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Advantages Deeply Get Know Place Staying Travelling World You

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Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Breakfast Cereal Come Every Everyone Film Hated Loved Park Previous Remake Ride Series Soon Television Television Series Theme Theme Park Will 1960S

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Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

~Alan Moore

Topics: After Anything Anywhere Brilliant Go However Nihilism Outrage Progressing Really Statement Toward

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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

~Alan Moore

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: November 18th, 1953

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