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"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."
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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."
"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
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"In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted."
"And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw."
"He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that."
"Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done."
"I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason."
"I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio."
"I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect."
"I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could."
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