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Bil Keane

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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Art Homework Taught
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
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Bitter Life Love Sick Start
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Character Occasional Thinking
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.
BIL KEANE

Drawing Important Laughing Throat
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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Family Inspirational Life Myself Reality Start
Goal begins with “GO.”
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Goal One Liner
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
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
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Inspirational Life Motivational Present Tomorrow
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Inspiration Real
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.
BIL KEANE

Drawing Laughter Love Myself
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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Away Hug Right Yourself
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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Home Peace Place Sacred
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
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Invention Love Silence Talk Yourself
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
BIL KEANE

Entertainment Family Goodness
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
BIL KEANE

Gift God Present

I don’t just try to be funny.

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