Garry Trudeau Quotes

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• I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper…
• America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
• When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to…
• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write…
• In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are
• There is nothing worse than annotated humour,
• I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.
• Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers…
• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left…
• At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and…
• Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
• Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.
• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the…
• I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
• Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral…

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