Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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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’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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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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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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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he’s a professional whiner in the newspaper.
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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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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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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
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I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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