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Best Quotes by Alan Moore (Top 10)

  1. My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
  2. People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
  3. Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
  4. Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
  5. 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.
  6. You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
  7. Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
  8. Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.
  9. Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
  10. We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

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