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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war."
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"I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one."
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"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
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"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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"The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening."
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"I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper."
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"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."
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"If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper."
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"Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!"
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"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
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"That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost."
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"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."
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"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
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"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
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"I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking."
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"I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world."
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"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life."
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"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
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"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."
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"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."
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"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things."
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"It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation."
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"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
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"Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book."
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"People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing."
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"Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes."
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"People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story."
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"That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes."
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"When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time."
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"And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry."
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"When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities."
Sex,
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"The fact is that even art is subject to fashion."
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"I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends."
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"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
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"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
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"What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?"
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"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
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"Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice."
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"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
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"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
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"The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise."
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"The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin."
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