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I want to go everywhere, look at and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

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People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

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If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them.

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I'm free to leave... go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don't be dependent on anyone else - man, woman, child, or dog.

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I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

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I didn't have a lot of friends. I just walked around a lot and made up stories in my head. Then I'd go home and write them down. That's how I got started.

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You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

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Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

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Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

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If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: September 25th, 1930

Died: May 10th, 1999

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