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born 1953 England

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is a British writer, most famous for his influential work in comic-books and graphic novels.

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Also known as: Moore, Alan

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And I think that if we actually look at nature without prejudice, we find that this is the state of affairs that usually pertains.

Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)

There is a channel that I have called the god Mercury, some sort of information source I have named.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to pretend it looked like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn’t.

Watchmen (1986)

Maybe the world..has run out of room..for monsters.

Swamp Thing (1983)

The ancient world's greatest puzzle was there, a knot that couldn't be untied. Alexander cut it in two with his sword. Lateral thinking, you see. Centuries ahead of his time.

The difference between religion and magic … I think you could map that over those two poles of fascism and anarchism. Magic is closer to anarchism.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

I came to a conclusion that basically the only political standpoint that I could possibly adhere to would be an anarchist one.

Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)

Annie Besant’s book where she put forward the idea that theosophical mystical energies could be portrayed as colours or abstract shapes was practically the invention of abstract art.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

There is something strange looming on the human horizon. If you draw a graph of all our consciousness, there is a point we seem to be heading towards.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.

The twigs will be tied together in a neater and stronger bundle if they are all the same size and length. That’s fascism.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Mind has come up with this brilliant way of looking at the world — science — but it can’t look at itself. Science has no place for the mind.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Now anarchy, on the other hand, is almost starting from the principle that “in diversity, there is strength,” which makes much more sense from the point of view of looking at the natural world.

Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)

To me, when we talk about the world, we are talking about our ideas of the world. Our ideas of organisation, our different religions, our different economic systems, our ideas about it are the world.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

The movements of the mind don’t follow any linear pattern, they can’t be explained with a mechanistic, clockwork view.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

The K Foundation are interesting and lively, a good laugh and they mean it.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

There has always been a dance element in my mysticism.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

Things tend to organise themselves. If there is any message from contemporary science, it is surely that.

De Abaitua interview (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Moore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.