"If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence."

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"If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence."

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"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

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"Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics."

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"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."

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"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."

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"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

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"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."

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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."

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"It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory."

Time

"The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator."

Leadership

"I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond."

Art

"I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general."

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"I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City."

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"I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman."

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"Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination."

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"I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side."

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"This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions."

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"When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right."

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