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People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

~Alan Moore

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Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.

~Alan Moore

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If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Any Century Changing Fundamentally Going Kind Liquid Living Opposition Political Rapidly Society Then You 21St Century

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In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.

~Alan Moore

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I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Always Another Been British Fiction Mean Most Potentially Science Science Fiction Sense Side Some Stories Think I Think

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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.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Been Believed Bizarre Both Entities Entity Equally Experiences Had Independent Interesting Magical May Metaphysical My Own Nature Own Parts Personality Seem Some Well Which Would Years

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Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

~Alan Moore

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The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

~Alan Moore

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All culture must have arisen from cult.

~Alan Moore

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I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

~Alan Moore

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: November 18th, 1953

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