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.“

“While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”

“There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.”

“Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition…”

“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

“With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth… But we as gardeners, must beware… for some seeds are the seeds of ruin… and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous”

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”

“This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?”

“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”

“I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.”

“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

“Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.”

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?”

“They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.”

“Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.”

“… My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?”

“If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.”

“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.”

“The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs…. It´s us. Only us.”

“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”

“I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”

“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.”

“What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”

“They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.”

“Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain… The black sheep of the family.”

“The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.”

“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

“A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?”

“The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”

“I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!”