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"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated."
Writing
"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."
Love
"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
Father
"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
Trying
"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."
Men
"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
Mother
"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
"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."
Reason
"I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me."
Confession
"And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me."
Family
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