Алан Мур цитаты

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„Меня как-то спросили, почему я сделал первую главу своей первой книги такой длинной. Но это же так просто: чтобы всякие идиоты сразу отложили книгу в сторону.“

„Если ты хочешь быть абсолютно свободным, избавься от двух вещей: от страха оступиться и от стремления быть первым.“

„Если запретить свет, то только нарушители закона будут понимать, куда идут.“

„Сатира страшнее проклятья. Не так давно я понял, почему в Средние века правители больше боялись бардов, чем колдунов или ведьм. Предположим, ты прогневал ведьму, и она прокляла тебя. Что произойдет? Сдохнет пара кур, скиснет молоко или кто-то из твоих детей родится с заячьей губой. Ничего такого. Но если ты прогневал барда, он обернет против тебя не проклятие, а сатиру. Он выставит тебя в глазах окружающих тупым жирным словоблудом, и ты надолго останешься таким для своего окружения, своих родных и самого себя. А если тебе попался особенно умелый бард, то и через триста лет после твоей смерти люди будут смеяться над тем, каким нелепым ублюдком ты был при жизни.“

„Кругом сплошное дерьмо.“

„Нужен ли миру ещё один дерьмовый фильм — вот какой вопрос должны задавать себе режиссёры.“

„Есть выражение, которое я бы хотел торжественно похоронить — «обычный человек». Какая чушь! Нет никакого «обычного» человека.“

„Пусть мир проявляется материально в замках, больницах, диванах и атомных бомбах – он основан на нематериальных пределах человеческого разума, зиждется на хлипкой парадигме, у которой нет никакого веса.“

„В любом деле нужно найти край, а потом сбросить себя оттуда.“

„У жизни нет жанра. Это роман ужасов с элементами мелодрамы, трагедии, комедии, научно-фантастического ковбойского детектива плюс немного порнографии — если, конечно, вам повезет.“

“But the country's disintegrating. What's happened to America? What's happened to the American dream? It came true. You're lookin' at it.”

“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”

“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past”

“You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.”

“I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.”

“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”

“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.”

“Everybody has their story to tell.”

“Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you… Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.”

“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

“As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.”

“A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

“No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”

“Is it meaningless to apologize?

Never.”

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

“It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for… it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?”

“I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.”

“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except… me?”

“Did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There is only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

“The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.”

“How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?”

“American love — like coke in green glass bottles… they don't make it anymore.”

“Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.”

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

“Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.”

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”