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Harvey Pekar

"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."

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"I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics."

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"The world system is employment."

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"A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing."

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

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"Be robust enough to work more than a robot!"

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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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"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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"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same."
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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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