Dave Sim Quotes

• ‘Cerebus’ is my attempt at a literary work.

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• Leftist reactions are always histrionic.

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• It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.

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• Leftists always want to… circle around subjects… rather than addressing any subject directly.

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• North American leftists just keep trying to relive the ’60s, or to make the ’60s happen again.

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• The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I’m not sure that the last couple of generations – Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them – even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

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• Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I’m just the first one to point it out publicly.

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• As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, ‘Ah, now we know why you are doing it.’

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• If you haven’t signed anything, you cant be ripped off.

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• I like the idea that my audience doesn’t see what I do as controversial.

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• I’m comfortable having a specific audience to write to.I like the idea that my audience doesn’t see what I do as controversial.

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• These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas – and new connections between ideas – lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

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• For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

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• Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. There’s no ‘going back’ to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist… why would you want to?

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• I know what you’re going to say! ‘They are men, and men should be free.’ A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.

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• Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

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Dave Sim (16)

Birth:	17th May, 1956
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Cartoonist, Publisher

About

Dave Sim was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian cartoonist and publisher, best known for his comic book Cerebus, his artistic experimentation, his advocacy of self-publishing and creator's rights, and his controversial political, philosophical and religious beliefs. His first published work was some articles in the comics fanzine Rocket's Blast Comicollector.

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