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"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."
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"And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was."
Success
"Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all."
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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
Depression
"I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons."
Art
"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."
Engineering
"When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."
Sports
"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."
Books
"And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed."
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"It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things."
Quality
"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger."
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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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