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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

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
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
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Divorce Family Himself Mom
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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Gift God Present
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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Home Peaceful Sacred
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 Laughter Love Myself
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Bitter Life Love Sick Start
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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Children Family Mom Myself Raise
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
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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Children Mother Parenting
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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Cartoon Inspiration Real
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.
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Eye Heart Laughing
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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Father Kids Mother
I don’t just try to be funny.
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Funny Myself One Liner Try
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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Earth Happy Santa Times
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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Home Peace Place Sacred
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Bitter Heart Image Loving Lump Throat Waiting
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
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Drawing School Teacher
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
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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Character Occasional Thinking
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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Away Hug Right Yourself
Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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Easy Face Forget Funny Herself Pace Speed Time
Goal begins with “GO.”
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Began Go Goal
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.
BIL KEANE

Acceptance Family Magazine Movie Page Yourself
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
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Children Feeling Love Lyric Myself Time Wrong
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.
BIL KEANE

Family Feeling Love Mom Myself
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
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
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Children Feelings Love

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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