Charles M. Schulz Quotes

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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

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I have a new philosophy; I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

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Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?''Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

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Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears that we never use.

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Snoopy didn't start off being a Beagle. It's just that 'beagle' is a funny word.

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I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

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I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

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I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

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Linus: After you've died, do you get to come back?
Charlie Brown: If they stamp your hand.

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Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest.

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It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

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Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone. "I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!" She hit him with a waffle iron.

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It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air.... Good writing takes enormous concentration.

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The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.

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Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy... How can I ever forget them...

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If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books — but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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All right, team... This is our first game of the season... If we all show the right spirit, I think we can win this one. Let's try to encourage each other... Let's hear a little chatter out there, okay?" "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL, KID!

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That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

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I never give my work to somebody else and say, "What do you think about that?" I just don't trust anybody. If I think it's funny, or if I think it's silly, I send it in anyway because I'm just trying to please myself. I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous. There's no way in the world you can anticipate what your reader is going to like or dislike.

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In the Book of Life, the answers are not in the back.

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A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

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I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

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