Alan Moore citations

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“L’art est supposé nous aider à comprendre le monde dans lequel on vit, malgré ses métamorphoses et évolutions les plus complexes. Actuellement, tout change si vite que personne, absolument personne n’arrive à suivre. L’art est plus vital actuellement que jamais. A la place, il fait tout le contraire.”

“Je suis fier de faire partie de la working class.”

“Je pense que Jérusalem est une très bonne affaire. C’est le seul roman que je connaisse qui promet de manière catégorique l’immortalité à ses lecteurs. Il me semble que c’est assez généreux et j’espère qu’ils l’apprécieront.”

“Le fait que des centaines de millions de soi-disant adultes se rendent au cinéma tous les six mois pour aller voir Batman m’inquiète beaucoup. On dit de moi que je suis rancunier, que je déteste les super-héros, mais ça n’a rien à voir. On parle de gens de 30, 50 ou 70 ans qui se délectent des aventures de personnages créés pour distraire des adolescents de 12 ans il y a cinquante ans. On me dit que les comics sont pour les adultes désormais, qu’il n’y a pas de mal à s’amuser. Je remarque pourtant que l’année où Donald Trump a été élu et une majorité du peuple britannique a voté pour le Brexit, les six premiers films au box-office mondial étaient des films de super-héros.”

“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.”