"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up."
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"Take what you have learned, and move on."
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"You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it."
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"Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them."
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"She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark."
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"The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision"
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"You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually."
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"You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime."
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"You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen."
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"Take one, and you cannot take the other. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?"
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"Make your mistakes, next year and forever."
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"Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together."
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"I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda."
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"To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love."
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"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."
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"The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored."
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"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"
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"His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master."
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"I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?"
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