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🇸🇪Tove Jansson

Literature

1914–2001

"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected."

"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy."

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."

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🇺🇸Roger Price (comedian)

Literature

1918–1990

"According to child-experts—and every child is an expert on something—the function of a parent is to provide information, entertainment, transportation, and spot cash on demand."

"Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam."

"Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy, greater and more malignant than any a psychologist could create for them, always hidden behind their own terror."

"A zebra can't drive a moon-buggy. Or any other sort of car for that matter."

"It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world,"

"There's much to be said for immortality – for example, the saving on funeral expenses. And no more nonsense about "legacies," and about how anything you've accomplished will "live on after you."

"You are born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life."

"Jezanna: Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chain store jobs!"

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🇺🇸Nina Paley

Art

opposition to copyright

b. 1968

"Cartoonistgroup: extensive archives of many of Paley's comic strips"

"I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!"

"When you’re a cartoonist, you sort of have to be, like, sensitive – or maybe open’s a better word – to what’s going on around you. When you’re an attorney, you’re just like a bulldog with your head down."

"Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give."

"Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!"

"There's one thing about baldness; it's neat."

"Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can't tune it out; we have to remain mindful of the terrible losses that individual soldiers are suffering in our name."

"For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!"

"Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released."

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🇺🇸Lorin Morgan-Richards

Literature

b. 1975

"Old robots are becoming more human and young humans are becoming more like robots."

"Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy."

"And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all."

"A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter."

"Muhammad isn't sacred to me. I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don't live under Quranic law."

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🇩🇪Wilhelm Busch (pastor)

Art

1832–1908

"All religions are human attempts to find God. But they all have this in common: they have all gone astray in the fog and have not been able to discover God."

"Matt Groening's Bio at Rock Bottom Remainders' Website"

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."

"Despite the fact that my weapons and armor are in desperate need of repair, I blow the entire reward on ale and whores."

"Sure he was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards... and in high heels."

"The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential."

"The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation."

"In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back."

"Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.."

"I wrote this book for my teenage self, so it’s all about themes that were important to my young self: questioning your identity and gender, but also your creative aspirations and the person you want to be."

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