I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
BERKELEY BREATHEDIf you’ll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you’ll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
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I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
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A turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird… a social being… capable of actual affection… nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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If you’ll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you’ll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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