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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.

— Alan Moore De Abaitua interview (1998)

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You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

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I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

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