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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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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Give light and people will find the way."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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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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"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."
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