Mort Walker Quotes

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• Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total…
• You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no…
• When I draw, I rule the world.
• When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it…
• I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.
• I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their…
• Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.
• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences.…
• At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if…
• Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.
• When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary…
• You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
• Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
• Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
• It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
• I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well,…

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