Jules Feiffer Quotes

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• I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to…
• Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
• At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and…
• I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
• It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.
• Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very…
• Design is important because chaos is so hard.
• We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.
• Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.
• 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 that…
• We want playmates we can own.
• I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.
• The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and…
• Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
• 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 are…
• Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either…

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