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Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (b. June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters (e.g., Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. (Click here for full Wikipedia article)

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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

And irony, oh the goddamed irony, that courses through the popular culture like a cancer. If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

I happen to think nearly everybody- especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me- is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Whatever we are waiting for- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

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(June 21 is also the birthday of Jean Paul Sartre and Mary McCarthy.)

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Categories: Berkeley Breathed, Jean-Paul Sartre, Quotes of the day

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Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. (Full Wikipedia article)

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Anyone, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Hell is other people.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

I know only one Church: it is the society of men.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

If you begin by saying, “Thou shalt not lie,” there is no longer any possibility of political action.

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

The attentive pupil who wishes to be attentive, his eyes riveted on the teacher, his ears open wide, so exhausts himself in playing the attentive role that he ends up by no longer hearing anything.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Three a.m. is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

We are alone, with no excuses. That is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, in other respects is free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

We do not judge the people we love.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.

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It was the day after Jean-Paul Sartre died.
(recalling under oath the day in 1980 he first met Mia Farrow) -Woody Allen

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