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> [There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap. How many of these graphic novels over the years are from really talented people? Most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/there-are-many-people-who-get-beat-up-who-suffer-who-are-victimized/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

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## More by Jules Feiffer

> [When you do the kind of work I do, everything is challenging, but probably the most challenging thing is getting up in the morning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/when-you-do-the-kind-of-work-i-do-everything-is-challenging-but/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/when-people-started-reading-me-and-talking-to-me-about-the-work-they/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/artists-can-color-the-sky-red-because-they-know-it-s-blue-those-of-us/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I'm more likely to hit what's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-have-no-sense-of-direction-i-never-know-where-i-am-when-i-back-up-a/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [Design is important because chaos is so hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/design-is-important-because-chaos-is-so-hard/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [I was doing cartoons and mocking white liberals, mocking the attitude of government who said to go slow, while intending to do absolutely nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-was-doing-cartoons-and-mocking-white-liberals-mocking-the-attitude/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/cartoons-were-very-conservative-the-country-was-very-conservative/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/remember-when-you-were-a-kid-and-the-boys-didn-t-like-the-girls-only/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-didn-t-have-a-job-employers-were-afraid-of-losing-their-reputations/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-come-out-of-a-cold-war-sensibility-a-cold-war-mentality-and-during/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [I seemed to have instinctually a strong idea of how the strip had to be written from the beginning. That changed too, but it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-seemed-to-have-instinctually-a-strong-idea-of-how-the-strip-had-to/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/that-was-exciting-to-be-able-to-comment-on-civil-rights-i-mean-the/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/the-artwork-had-very-little-to-do-with-the-thought-process-and-the/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to is of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-m-not-electronically-geared-at-all-i-m-really-a-19th-century/)

[Jules Feiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-feiffer/)

> [I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was a kid.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-feiffer/i-found-it-was-my-good-fortune-to-somehow-be-able-to-work-in-these/)

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