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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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Faces Forget Pace
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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History Powerful Today Yesterday
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
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Draw Home Imitation Myself Study
Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself Need Old Simplicity
Goal begins with “GO.”
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Began Go Goal
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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Gift God Present
Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
BIL KEANE

Needs Simple Tired
I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.
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Drawing Important Laughing Throat
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Bitter Heart Image Loving Lump Throat Waiting
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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Children Mother Parenting
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
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Daddy Divorce Father
I like to feel that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me.
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Family Feeling Love Mom Myself
Goal begins with “GO.”
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Goal One Liner
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Character Occasional Thinking
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
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Looks Magazines Television
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
BIL KEANE

Heart Laughter Myself Tears

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

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