Harvey Pekar Quotes
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
Quotes to Explore
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
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Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.
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Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money.
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There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
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I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
