"I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad."

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Source : Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Harvey Pekar

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“We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.”

Source : "The Crisis in a Nutshell: Quotes of the Week" by Aswini Periyasamy, www.newyorker.com. March 22, 2013.
“This is our Lordâ€™s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray, we do not full worship to our Lord in our prayer, and also we tarry and pain our self. The cause is, as I believe, that we know not truly that our Lord is Ground on whom our prayer springeth; and also that we know not that it is given us by the grace of His love. For if we knew this, it would make us to trust to have, of our Lordâ€™s gift, all that we desire. For I am sure that no man asketh mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace be first given to him.”
“So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?”
“The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.”
“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”
“I'm grateful for anything that reminds me of what's possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It's so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.”
“Continual improvement is an unending journey”
“If you imagine for a moment that I would do that, then I think you pretend that you don't know who I am. Hear it plainly. I am a Christian.”

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