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"It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
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"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
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"And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling, the question should never be: 'Do I like that kind of service?' but 'Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?"
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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
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"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
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"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
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"People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them."
People
"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."
Problems
"I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books."
Work
"I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers."
Legacy
"I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad."
Influence
"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."
Art
"It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends."
Friendship
"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."
Work
"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."
School
"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."
Art
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