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🇬🇧Alan Moore

Literature

b. 1953

"Transcript of an interview with Alan Moore on BBC Radio 4"

"Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, ‘It’s gone, and I’m better.’ They’re wrong. When the people you love are gone, you’re alone."

"Mr. Richard Corben... a genuine giant of his chosen medium.|Alan Moore"

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🇺🇸Harry Harrison (writer)

Literature

1925–2012

"Harry Harrison Papers at the University of South Florida"

"But I do want to trigger emotions like his movies triggered our emotions."

"Because," she said, "when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."

"It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world,"

"There would always be a bunch of fucking grousers and nay-sayers being like "that was uncalled for."

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🇺🇸William Moulton Marston

Literature

1893–1947

"A woman character without allure would be like a Superman without muscle."

"I try to write to the story, as opposed to writing for the reader…"

"The world is merciless, and it's also very beautiful."

"As you may have noticed, a hurricane didn't kill me yesterday. I will celebrate my continued life with some ice cream this afternoon."

"When you’re a cartoonist, you sort of have to be, like, sensitive – or maybe open’s a better word – to what’s going on around you. When you’re an attorney, you’re just like a bulldog with your head down."

"Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle."

"Instead, it had slipped into her subconscious, and worked its way beneath her skin."

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🇫🇷Jean-Marc Jancovici

Politics

political ecology

b. 1962

"Material can follow a circular path, but energy can only add up. One of the challenges is that even "circular economy" needs "linear energy."

"In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth."

"“You know, I guess one person can make a difference. 'Nuff said...” - Dialogue from Spider-Man 3"

"I think New Yorkers are more provocative in every way."

"It is not size or age or childishness that separates children from adults. It is "responsibility."

"It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early."

"There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman."

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🇸🇪John Ajvide Lindqvist

Literature

b. 1968

"Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another."

"Interviewer: Would you say any other manga artists have influenced you?"

"Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn: If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first."

"I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again."

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night."

"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. . . . But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."

"Books, words, were my most treasured escape. I lived inside stories, I breathed them. I felt like they made me more human, or a better human…"

"I wrote this book for my teenage self, so it’s all about themes that were important to my young self: questioning your identity and gender, but also your creative aspirations and the person you want to be."

"I love all the series I’ve done pretty much equally.I haven’t done a single series that I have been embarrassed by. Some of the movies are better than others."

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