"As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics."

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Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.

Ben Katchor

#Book Quotes #Kids Quotes #World Quotes

“Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.”
“A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.”

Source : Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”
“I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.”
“Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.”
“If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.”
“Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit”
“There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.”

Source : ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”

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