"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."

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Alison Bechdel

#Ethos Quotes #Mad Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.”
“I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite”
“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”
“Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.”
“Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.”
“I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so.”

Source : Journal of Genetics, Vol. 58, 1963.
“To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press

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