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" James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw. "

Bruce Eric Kaplan

I Can

Thought

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" It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them. "

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" In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day. "

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" We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when you got your clothing. "

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" Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying. "

" Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes. "

" I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business. "

" I can't get enough of self-help books of all kinds. "

" When I was a kid, and I was watching TV, I just loved it so much that I wanted to crawl into that TV. "

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" When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad. "

" I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works. "

" It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset. "

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