"I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, as long as you had the skill to put it down on paper, was fair game. And I started filling sketchbooks with my own comics."

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Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

Stephen R. Bissette

#Games Quotes #Skills Quotes #Long Quotes

“An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.”
“Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.”
“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
“I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.”
“London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.”

Source : Louise Closser Hale, Walter Hale (1915). “We Discover New England”, New York, Dodd, Mead
“The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.”
“A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.”
“I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!”

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