"I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Harvey Pekar

#Thinking Quotes #Elements Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.”
“I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.”
“There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.”
“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.”
“I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.”
“I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.”
“The world starts with a Big Bang and finishes with a human-made atomic Big Bang!”

Source : Humor & Caricature magazine, May 1995.
“If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.”

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