Dave Sim Quotes

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Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy...

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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.

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The first five years that I did Cerebus I could have made more money baby-sitting (that isn't a joke). Five years. Think about it.

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Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.

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I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.

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Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane.

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In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

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... there is very little about self-publishing a comic book that can be taught, but everything about it can be learned.

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No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully.

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In any creative field—any creative field—you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that—potential—and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others.

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An attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.

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In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion.

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Reality is reality. It is the way things are, not the way you want them to be in your head.

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Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you.

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