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The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

Real Guy Beat Would Be
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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

Art Literature Common Publishing
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Art Artist Men Common
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Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

Men Giving Mona Lisa Come Up
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Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.
Once Learned Enough About
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Perfectionists are their own devils.

Perfectionist Their Own Devils
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I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

Interesting Settling Good Enough Enough
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

A Character Contrived Like
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Lying Men Suffering Speak
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I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

Men Good Man Trying Sincere
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.

Dirty World Language Comic
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I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

People Done Artistic Masterpiece
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I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.

Never Done Anything Half Heartedly
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I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

People Done Beef Fingers
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I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Children Home Men Wife
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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Always Am Color Happy
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Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Appear Beautiful BeautifulWoman Beauty
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Beautiful Concerns Emphasize Itself
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Bit Distance Does Flesh
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In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

Analysis Better Dimensions Drawing
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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Art Expression Forms Further
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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Artist Confusion Nature Point
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When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Any Art Had Looking
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Affairs Art Begins Concern
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One eye sees, the other feels.
Eye Feels Other Sees
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Ability Age Also Artistic
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Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Being Concerned Faith State
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Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Friends Him His Imaginary
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Accept Being Courage Oneself
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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Answers Asking Being Even
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Act Being Concerned Consists
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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Being Courage Decision Free
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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Astonishment Philosophy Root
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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

Again Day Embarrassment Everyone
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We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Clouds Leaves Moving Respond
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Answer Being Concern Concerns
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Created
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Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

Avoiding Being Neurosis Way
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Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Doubt Element Faith Opposite
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If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

Measures Sing Song Stirring
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Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Alone Being BeingAlone Expresses
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Able Alone Because Concern
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

Achievements Ambiguity Awareness Deepest
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Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

Real Stereotype Gangster Big
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Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.

Kind Brands Brand New Comics
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I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

Hurt Party People Conflict
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I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Fighting Guy Trying Care
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
Perfection Style Storytelling Type
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My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

Evil Lovable Made Monsters
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