"Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures."

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Harvey Pekar

“I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.”
“As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare ..”
“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”
“I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'”
“And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it â€” it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.”
“My friend is an idiot. He smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. He won't quit, either. His big excuse is, "Why should I quit smoking? Anything could kill me. I could be walking down the street one day and i could be hit by a bus." Maybe if you quit smoking you could cross the street a hell of a lot faster.”
“Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.”
“Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.”

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