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Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself. ↗

— Lawrence Tierney

#board #bodies #hey #over #save

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#feel #feel good #good #know #like

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#any #anything #art #art form #comics

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#autobiography #early #going #i #journal

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comic #comic book #doing #great #great opportunity

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#happen #i #people #things #things happen

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cold #completely #day #every #how