"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."

-- Harvey Pekar

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Form Quotes

“We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.”

Source : The Washington Post, p. 3, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 3, 1970.
“Age is just a number, unless of course your trying to have a conversation with them.”
“I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.”
“But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct.”
“Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.”
“I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.”
“The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.”
“I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.”

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