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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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"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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A.E. Samaan

"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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A.E. Samaan

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"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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"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."
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"I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in."
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"It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you."
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"I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor."
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"People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books."
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"It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing."
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"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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"My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff."
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"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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