Jules Feiffer Quotes

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• I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

  Jules Feiffer

  Doctors, Anxiety, Normal

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• 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 or people might think we're stupid.

  Jules Feiffer

  Art, Stupid, Thinking

  Jules Feiffer (1963). “Feiffer's Album”

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• Design is important because chaos is so hard.

  Jules Feiffer

  Design, Important, Chaos

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• 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 likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Crush, Advice, Patterns

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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 think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  1956 Cartoon caption.

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• We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

  Jules Feiffer

  Firsts, Aspect, Embarking

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• 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.

  Jules Feiffer

  Mother, Father, Looks

  Jules Feiffer (1977). “Hold Me!”, p.44, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

  Jules Feiffer

  Frustration, Imagination, Tradition

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• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Break Up, Humorous, Kids

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• 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 nothing's changed. You think boys grow out of not liking girls, but we don't grow out of it. We just grow horny. That's the problem. We mix up liking pussy for liking girls. Believe me, one couldn't have less to do with the other.

  Jules Feiffer

  Girl, Believe, Kids

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• 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 indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

  Jules Feiffer

  Wise, Confused, Stupid

  "Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, Second Edition". Book edited by William H. McNeill, Jerry Bentley and David Christian, April 30, 2010.

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• If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

  Jules Feiffer

  Able, Stranger, Communicate

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• The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Brain, Littles

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

  Jules Feiffer

  Years, Chance, Should

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

  Jules Feiffer

  Jesus, Religion, Forgiving

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• 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 won on paper or held to a draw.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Past, Light

  Jules Feiffer (1978). “Ackroyd”, Avon Books

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• Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Confidence, Morning, Bed

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• I was never interested in the two-party system per se. I was interested in how authority was abused by government, and how lies were told, and rewritten, to seem to be true. I came up out of a tradition of radical journalism.

  Jules Feiffer

  Lying, Party, Government

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• There's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do.

  Jules Feiffer

  Brain, May, Damage

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Persistence, Luck, Mind

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 28, 2008.

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• I don't know how comic artists feed their families, if they do. But it's a fascinating form and so I think that after a long period of nothing happening and work, nothing very impressive, we are into another golden age of comics. Unfortunately, it's not a golden age for the artists themselves economically. I don't know how they get along.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Artist, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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 freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

  Jules Feiffer

  Giving, Reputation, Losing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

  Jules Feiffer

  Writing, Play, Actors

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

  Jules Feiffer

  Children, Responsibility, Age

  Jules Feiffer (2003). “The Great Comic Book Heroes”

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• Whatever New York loses, if you go to other cities around the world, or around the country, New York still has a kind of energy level you find nowhere else. Paris doesn't have it, London doesn't have it, San Francisco, a great city, doesn't have it.

  Jules Feiffer

  Country, Energy, World

  Source: bigthink.com

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