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Mort Walker

"I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?"

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"I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?"

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"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

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"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

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"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

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"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

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"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."

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"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

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"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind."

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"At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them."
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"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
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"When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine."
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"The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived."
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"Seven days without laughter makes one weak."
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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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