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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.

Berkeley Breathed

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Abridged Lives Our Paperback
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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Littles Needs Sometimes
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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Issues People Thinking
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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Cards Guy Holiday
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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Anger Hands Heart
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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Evolution Mind
The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that’d done them for a living. And I didn’t have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn’t have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
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Connection Fans Living Material Relationship Work
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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Heart Libertarian Politics
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.
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Challenges Digital Mind
He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Dying Pages Want
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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Elude Genius Irony
I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Digital Revolution Fans Mail
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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Childhood Country Different
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.
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Paper Writing Years
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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Cat Years Yelling
I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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Bunch Libertarian Subtext

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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