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Harvey Pekar

"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Donna Grant

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

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Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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Donna Grant

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

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Donna Grant

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

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Harvey Pekar
"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same."

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Harvey Pekar
"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."

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Harvey Pekar
"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."

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Harvey Pekar
"The film's success so far involves winning a couple of prizes at Cannes and Sundance, and getting some very nice reviews in newspapers and magazines. That hasn't had a big impact on my life yet."

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Harvey Pekar
"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."

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Harvey Pekar
"It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends."

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Harvey Pekar
"I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor."

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Harvey Pekar
"It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you."

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Harvey Pekar
"American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going."

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Harvey Pekar
"I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist."

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