Dave Sim Quotes

#1. Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

Eddie Campbell

#2. No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

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#3. Leftists always want to ... circle around subjects ... rather than addressing any subject directly.

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#4. North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again.

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#5. For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

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#6. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.

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#7. Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

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#8. I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt

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#9. Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly.

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#10. These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

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#11. It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.

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#12. Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

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#13. When you're obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you'll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

Evan Williams

#14. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

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#15. As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'

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#16. I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

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#17. Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

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#18. Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be unseen.

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#19. I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

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#20. Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited, I know that better than most. Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back- government has no place in the middle.

Mark Kirk

#21. The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

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#22. 'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

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#23. God grinds the axes he intends to use.

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#24. Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

Virginia Woolf

#25. Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

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#26. You are but a tiny cluster upon the vines of heaven, where the grapes are worlds; yet you hold the power to ripen your bitter berries and add to the eternal vintage of cosmic sweetness if so you will.

Eden Phillpotts

#27. When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the whole thing works. -Lord Julius

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#28. If you haven't signed anything, you cant be ripped off.

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#29. 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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#30. Woman's shape under her midnight blue cloak. The cloak had made her invisible in the darkness, but up close he saw that she had golden blonde hair, so luminous that it glowed under the velvet hood. He found her attractive but sensed there was something strange about her, that she was

Alma Katsu

#31. You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.

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#32. Leftist reactions are always histrionic.

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#33. 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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#34. Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist ... why would you want to?

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