Al Capp Quotes

• Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

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  Tags in Verbatim, People, Shelter

• Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

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  Tags in Ignorant, Repulsive, Worse

• There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx’s Capital.

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  Tags in Bible, Origin, Searcher, Pure, Book, Books

• The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

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  Tags in Resentment, Embarrassment, Indifferent, Secret

• The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

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  Tags in Related, Poke, Public

• Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

  Al Capp

• My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.

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  Tags in Wrapped, Fish, Day

• Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

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  Tags in Husband, New York, Cashiers, Disappointed, Lady

• Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

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• Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

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• Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

  Al Capp

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  Tags in Abstract, Bewildered, Sold, Unprincipled, Untalented, Utterly, Product

Al Capp (11)

Birth:	28th September, 1909
Death:	5th November, 1979
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Humorist

About

Alfred Gerald Caplin, better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam. He won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award in 1947 for Cartoonist of the Year, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award for his "unique and outstanding contribution to the profession of cartooning.

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