One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
Alan MooreRead
I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the value of one's integrity and spirit, which should be preserved at all costs.
Alan Moore's quote stresses the importance of maintaining one's core essence, symbolized by 'an inch' that represents the soul or personal integrity. Despite facing adversity or threats to our being, it is crucial to protect this essential part of ourselves which holds true value and cannot be exchanged or surrendered.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal development.
One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.
My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
Love your rage, not your cage.
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.
One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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