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Harvey Pekar

"I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes."

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"I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"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."
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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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"Letterman... he got his problems. We don't get along too well."
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"I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers."
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"I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books."
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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."
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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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"It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you."
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