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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
BIL KEANE

Easy Face Forget Funny Herself Pace Speed Time
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
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.
BIL KEANE

Eye Heart Laughing
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
BIL KEANE

Entertainment Family Goodness
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
BIL KEANE

Away Hug Right Yourself
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
BIL KEANE

Draw Home Imitation Myself Study
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peace Place Sacred
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
BIL KEANE

Earth God Happiness Time
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
BIL KEANE

Future Gift Past Present Time
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
BIL KEANE

Invention Love Silence Talk Yourself
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.
BIL KEANE

Heart Laughter Myself Tears
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANE

Family Inspirational Life Myself Reality Start
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Character Thinking
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
BIL KEANE

Art Homework Taught
I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.
BIL KEANE

Drawing Names Wall
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.
BIL KEANE

Beginning Myself Need Old Simplicity

Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

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