Harvey Pekar Quotes
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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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Garry Kasparov -
I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
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I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
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One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
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1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.
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...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.
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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.
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Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.
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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
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When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
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I'd be very surprised if this doesn't become a staple for any network covering the NFL.
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No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
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And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--
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A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
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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...
