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I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#active #any #back #became #because

I never felt I left the stage. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#i #left #never #stage

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agree #intellect #mark #pessimism #superior

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comes #comics #easy #election #eroded

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#becoming #concerned #entire #far #get

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#awards #battle #between #big #doomed

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#does #flaws #get #highest #i

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#amendment rights #book #comic #comic book #comics

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#feel #get #just #may #moment

The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#also #brother #glory #i #i think