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Robert Crumb

"As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them."

Source : "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

Robert Crumb

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“The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.”

Source : Interveiw with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.
“Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.”

Source : "Senate Plans Hearings on Slow FEMA Response". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. September 7, 2005.
“Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.”
“Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.”
“This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and timeâ€¦I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.”
“In â€˜Imitation of Lifeâ€™, I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt,”
“He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.”
“Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter”

Source : Reuben Fine (1948). “The World's a Chessboard”

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