Art Spiegelman Quotes

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I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.

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There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

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I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

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I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.

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What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.

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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

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I guess I don't subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.

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

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