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" That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings. "
Garry Trudeau
Guilty
Create
Enough
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" I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day. "
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" The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view. "
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" I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me. "
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" I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be. "
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" In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. "
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Secret
" Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. "
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" Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. "
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Been
" I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with. "
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Us
People
" I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career. "
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Newspapers
Been
Career
" In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. "
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Popular
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" Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. "
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" Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables. "
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" Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better. "
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" I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent. "
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Day
Up
Well-Spent
" Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times. "
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" When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you. "
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" Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. "
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" The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure. "
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" Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. "
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Frustration
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