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Alison Bechdel

"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."

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"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"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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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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A.E. Samaan

"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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A.E. Samaan

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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A.E. Samaan

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

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Alison Bechdel
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."

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Alison Bechdel
"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit."

Fight

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Alison Bechdel
"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."

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Alison Bechdel
"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."

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Alison Bechdel
"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."

People

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Alison Bechdel
"One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully."

Age

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Alison Bechdel
"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."

Love

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Alison Bechdel
"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."

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Alison Bechdel
"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated."

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Alison Bechdel
"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."

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