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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Future Gift Past Present Today Tomorrow Why Yesterday

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When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Caricatures Catholic Drawing Events Found Got Having High High School Late Magazine Me Northeast Notoriety Our Philadelphia Published School Some Teachers Them Then

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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Anything Hugs Invented Know Love People Saying Them Without You

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A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Away Back Boomerang Get Hug Like Right Right Away You

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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Cartoons Circus Family Inspiration Our Pennsylvania Perspiration Provided Real-Life Started

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Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Belly Cartoons Eye Go Heart Laugh Lump Many Nostalgia Tear Throat Tug

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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Art Cartoonists Day Doing Draw Homework Imitating Instead Myself Never New New Yorker Studied Taught Yorker

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I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Always Bill Cartoons Drawing Knocked Me Name Named Out Parents Spell Started Wall

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I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Between Dear Doing Family Father Feel Kids Like Love Me Mother Near Subject Where

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I don't just try to be funny.

~Bil Keane

Topics: Funny Just Try

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: October 5th, 1922

Died: November 8th, 2011

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